What's Happening in Ghana

        Perhaps you've already seen the children's photo posted earlier.  Perhaps you're wondering about these orphans in Africa; and perhaps you wonder how we know about them.
        In 2007 granddaughter Joy was just 22 and in nursing school when she volunteered at a hospital in Ghana, Africa.  Her heart was touched and she co-founded HardtHaven, an orphanage in Kpando.
        Never heard of the town? Copy this:   6°59'57.28"N  0°18'9.43"E  and paste it in the Search box on Google Earth to find it.
        What's happening these days?  Joy, now a Navy nurse LTJG, finished her deployment to Djibouti, Africa and is back in the U.S.  The HardtHaven blog has been updated, and you'll want to take a look here.
      

Does God Love Africa?

A faraway place we do not see, a place where most do not go;

how can we know enough to care,

unless someone tells us so?

Not a paragraph or map or what a news article may show,

but a travel account, day by day,

written by someone we know.

Not viewed by jaded, professional eyes,

but by one who walked their streets,

who saw how someone lives and dies.

Joy personally shares her emotions and her youthful view,

she goes there and volunteers to help;

she brings Africa to you.

Now we all can pray with more direction, more power,

asking God's blessing for these people,

aware of their difficult hour.

Not only help for the body, but freedom for the soul,

African people need to know Jesus,

He alone can make them whole.

God loves Africa!  A reminder you and I need.

Pray for Joy and HardtHaven

to be blessed where God leads.

by "Grandma" Elaine Hardt ©2006

(See Joy's website: www.HardtHaven.org)

Joy and the orphans at HardtHaven, Kpando, Ghana

photo from Ghana @2008