Street Church

Last night we went to Tom's street church. They meet in an alley in what
they call the slums. The leaders of the church were there and we had a
time of prayer. They were praying about the meetings on the street for
this week. One thing that struck me was what a woman shared. She said
she was taking a taxi and asked the driver to pull over so she could go
to the bathroom. She went behind a large trash container and heard a
baby crying. She found a baby girl 6-8 months old. She took the baby to
the police and they wrote a report. She is now keeping the baby and we
got to pray for this child. Tom will organise the custody through his
orphanage. It is cool how God worked it out for this child, but a sad
state of things. They shared how this is common here. We drove to the
place where we will be having the street meetings. It was a very dirty
area where many people set up shanty-like shealters and were sleeping on
cardboard. There was a stream of sludge or sewage flowing right through
the center of this place. I also saw just rows and rows of people laying
on the side walks to sleep. There were many small kids too. I found out
that there are some who are second and third generation street people!
Almost a third of the city is considered slums and it seems there is a
huge homeless population. This is the focus of Tom's ministry here. It
is weird because the other parts of Accra are pretty decent and look
fairly modern. It is a contrast from Senegal, which seemed further
behind in technology and moderisation. Although a strange thing is the
cost of living is much higher in Senegal. Ghana is a pretty poor
country. I hope our meetings the next few evenings will be fruitful. We
are praying for some miracles, signs and wonders. Today we are also
meeting with the students here in a couple of hours. We are currently on
ther University campus and have been walking around and praying.