Ghana Mission 2009, Trip Report #1
Celebration of life in the midst of life’s adversities and struggles, a constant miraculous story of the average Ghanaian will be told by Jay Hockenberry and Marion Hubbard on their Ghana Mission trip 2009.
Jay Hockenberry’s journey from New York’s JFK to Accra Ghana did not end after 11 hours of air flight. The real journey into the heart of Ghana’s economic, social and religious life had just begun. In the next four hours Jay would walk for another 2 hours through Accra market in searching of two major equipment necessary for the production of Pens: a Drill Press and a Grinder. The search ended at this shop where a Drill Press passed Jay’s thorough inspection and durability test.
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First day at the Awombrew village is Akwaaba celebration. Akwaaba means welcome with a deep sense of re-connecting, re-viving, re-juvenating, and re-igniting the previous joyful relationship from the last point of interaction. This first day does not refer to a new beginning as in a new start because of Akwaaba. Akwaaba celebrates the memory of the past and the reality of present moment as if time stood still. Together again, hand in hand, heart to heart, connected through the web of life, sustained in the eternal flame of God’s love we are with our friends, our families, our community here in Awombrew.
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We are celebrating the gift of life with the school children, the mothers and fathers, the farmers, the teachers, the pastors, and with all those who remind us of the simple blessings that God brings to us through relationships.