When you woke up this morning did you wonder if your lights would be working or if your phone that you plugged into charge would be fully charged and ready for the day? What would your night have looked like if your power was out all night? This has been a regular occurrence lately in Ghana for our staff and students. While there has always been less stability in the accessibility and consistency of electrical power there, it has been at an abnormally high rate for the last months there.
Let me give you a small shock of what this reality means for them. the temperature there is around 80-90 F and extremely humid!! While most do not have A/C they do have fans which provide a little reprieve and some air movement but more importantly that help keep the mosquitoes away from eating you all night long. It is DARK! the kind of dark that feels a little oppressive and heavy. You lay in your bed drenched in sweat, with the humming of the mosquitos in your ears and biting you while encased in darkness praying the Lord will allow your body to find sleep somehow. In the morning you wake soaked, exhausted. you take a cold shower or do a sponge bath from a bucket. Most of your food is now spoiled because the small fridge you might own has had no power for days. There is no reprieve from the heat and humidity no matter where you go and sometimes being inside is worse than being outside where you can at least get a breeze occasionally. You spend your day trying to find a place to charge a phone/computer in order to get a little work done or just communicate with others. Just imagine all the things that you would have to adjust or do without if you did not have electricity even for 1 day.....now imagine several days or about 50% of the time having it go out with no warning!
In this trying time for our students and staff we are praying that the Lord will be there source of Power. They will see Him in the small things like a cool breeze and find their strength in Him to endure through the long nights and frustrating days. We know that the God that brought water from a rock, fire from heaven, and quiet the wind and waves can reveal His POWER in Ghana's energy crisis. He has the ability to solve this issue and use it to invoke change in Ghana.
The Lord encouraged Paul when he was asking for reprieve from a situation stating, "My grace is sufficient for you. for my POWER is made perfect in weakness" (2 Cor. 12:9) Please join us as we pray this over our Etwene family this week. Pray they will find this an opportunity to share Christ, The Light of the World, with those around them, as they all struggle through these blackouts. Pray for ECG (Electric Company Ghana) they they can find a solution to these consistent power shortages.
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