Mary Kay Jackson is a wonderful, caring person serving as a full-time missionary in Ghana.  The Ghana Project works very closely with Mary Kay.  She serves as our in-country presence.

Mary Kay recently posted this on her Facebook account:

Finally on the way back to Tamale after a long day. But it was good to see the finished chapel at Paga - complete with blackboard so it can double as a schoolhouse. And the school at Sakoti Ís up to lentil level! Thank you, Living Word UMC, Wildwood, MO.

First, let me extend those thanks from her not only to folks at Living Word who supported The Ghana Project but to all of you around the country and around the world who may have no connection to our church but have also provided your prayers and support.

I was, of course, so pleased to see that construction of the secondary technical school in Sakoti had progressed so far.  The building is cinder block/concrete block construction so Mary Kay is reporting that those blocks have been assembled to the tops of the windows and doors.  In other words, they're almost ready to put a roof on.  Yeah!

And, of course, it makes me very happy to see that the chapel in Paga is complete.  It is wonderful that people there are now able to gather and worship even in the midst of sandstorms that sometimes made services impossible before.  Yeah again!

But the portion of Mary Kay's update that I enjoyed the most . . .  the blackboard.  That made my day.  Maybe my week.

The Ghana Project decided to commit funds and build a needed chapel and it was built.  And we all thought that was the end of the story but we got a bonus too.  Now the chapel is also a school.  A building used not only for worship but to educate children.  To change their lives in spiritual ways and in temporal ways too.  Wow!

God can do a multitude of great things when we give him a chance.  He may even do two things when we're only thinking of doing one.  May He bless the lives of the Ghanaians who worship at the Paga Chapel . . . and the schoolchildren learning there.