Roadblocks, earthquake warnings and near kidnapping!

Don't worry, it was me that was nearly kidnapped, not Jim! There were lots of children at church on Sunday and they all loved me... One little boy loved me so much he wanted to keep me, but Jim knew how much everyone in KFC would miss me so he held on tight to me! He took photos of me with them so you can see those when we get back.

The people here are really loving to hear Jim talk and are going to make recordings so they can listen to everything he said again after we leave. That was so encouraging to hear! It takes a long time to go anywhere here because the main roads are so busy and there are so many police roadblocks - we were stopped at 8 one day on the way from our hotel to the church! Then, when we get off the main roads, the way is just over dirt roads - Jim even had to get out of the car one day to move rocks out of the way. Acra is a very large city so it can take ages to get around.

We were woken up one night by a lot of commotion outside. We wondered if people never go to sleep here! The next day we found out there had been an earthquake warning and people had been told to get out of their houses as it was safer outside! The pastor had got a taxi from his house all the way to the hotel so he could warn Jim, but by the time he got there they had decided there wasn't going to be an earthquake after all, so he decided just to go back home and not wake Jim up. We were very glad to know he had been so caring about us - and also to know that you are all praying for us back at home!

The mosquitoes are being very annoying and Jim has some nasty bites on his leg. Please pray they get better and that his malaria tablets work well!

Teaching by torchlight!

We are having an amazing time - plenty of strange things happening and lots of great things too! It turned out that so many people wanted to come and hear Jim speak that they couldn't all fit in the church! So we had to have our meetings outside. The first night it rained so much that they had to cancel the meeting, but the next night about 70 people came! It was great having a meeting in the open air, but of course it was night time so it was dark - and hard for Jim to see his notes! It's not often that we have to rely on torchlight but this is just that sort of trip... Jim was sooo good speaking to the people about God and afterwards 5 people accepted Jesus as Saviour! It was wonderful.

When we first got to the hotel, Jim was given a "Welcome pack". It had a kettle, a loaf of bread, tea bags and a tin of condensed milk! Very unusual... There wasn't even a knife so Jim had to eat his bread the old fashioned way (that's breaking bits off the loaf!) Thankfully, being a sheep, I'm fine anywhere in the world as long as I can find some grass to munch on.

I'm in Ghana!

Hello! This might come as a bit of surprise to some people, but I am in Ghana at the moment! I am here with Jim Storm from church. He has come to meet up with some friends he has know for a lot of years and he's going to have a very busy time!

It is soooo hot here, 30 degrees - I'm already wishing I was back in snowy Scotland! I realised on the way here that I didn't bring my scarf with me, but I'm glad I didn't now... We are staying in a hotel - they gave Jim a mosquito net but there's nowhere to hang it up in our room! Jim managed to wrap it round himself to keep the mosquitoes off, but I dont think that helped him feel any cooler.

I'm so glad Jim is here to keep me company, but please pray for him as he's the only one who can speak at meetings or talk to all the people we are meeting so it's going to be really hectic for him.

That's all for now but I'll try to write more later!