Christmas and New Year's Activities

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This is a picture of the outside of our temple during the month of December, with the statues of Mary, Joseph, and the animals.

                                                           

                                                                       

A picture of our nativity set, carved by a local carver by the name of Wisdom. The pieces are sitting on Kente cloth.

At the beginning of December, our Office Staff had our annual Christmas Devotional and Luncheon. The Devotional was held in the chapel of our church building next to the office. The Devotional was wonderful with narration, musical numbers and a message from our Area President, Elder Vinson. I sang a solo entitled, "The Birthday of a King." A local choir sang wonderful traditional African Christmas Carols, in their native language. This picture was taken at the luncheon in the cultural hall after the Devotional. Those pictured here are Chuck and Beverly Winegarden, Marva and Bob Pothier and me. Chris took the picture.

These are some more of our Couple Missionary friends. They are the Pierce's, Moore's, Redlin's, and Hadley's.





On the 10th of December the missionaries from the Accra Mission presented a beautiful Christmas Concert. In addition to the choir numbers, there were solos, instrumental performances, and narration. It was a wonderful program.

                      Sister Glanfield if directing the congregation in one of the Christmas hymns.

                                                                                  

This is Beverly Winegarden and me singing "Mary's Lullaby" on Christmas Eve at our Missionary Devotional. It was a lovely evening with several beautiful musical renditions and a Spiritual message, including the reading of Luke 2.

What's Christmas Eve without a delicious meal? This is the dessert table. It was all  very yummy!

This is a picture of Me, Marie Hadley and Carol Pierson at our Christmas Party.  This was the night of our gift exchange. Look what we all three received? African Aprons! On mine you will see African symbols, which, for the most part, have religious meanings. I was excited to get mine. They were made by a seamstress in Tema, which is a town about 30 miles from Accra.

       Doesn't everybody go swimming on New Year's Day in 85 degree weather?! This is how Senior Missionaries celebrate the New Year in Ghana...with a pool party and BBQ!

The table was laden with a lot of delicious food.

The pork chops were delicious! We also had grilled chicken.

Great friends visiting!

The table decorations were lovely with natural items from the surroundings. Very tropical and festive!




Sister Spackman made her delicious pineapple slush to help keep us cool.




Everyone lining up for the food.




A Harmattan sunset (Sahara dust in the air) taken at 5:30 PM.