Thank you for your prayer covering throughout this trip! We fly first to Accra, the capital of Ghana, and then we will drive east to Aflao (on the Togo border) for the children's home project. Most of the team will depart Ghana on Sunday, June 12. My sister Rebecca, the two EMI interns, and I will remain for 3 additional days to explore Accra and to meet with local designers and ministries. Please pray that God guides our actions and words by the power of His Spirit. Praise Him that the community has cleared the new site in Aflao for our land survey!

Please join me in praying:

• That God is glorified through this trip in attitude, word, & deed as we worship Him through this trip
• That the design team would bond well and work well together in Ghana, sharing Christ's love & gospel
• That God's true gospel shines on those who call themselves Christian but are not trusting Jesus as Lord
• For ingenuity and flexibility as we design with local, sustainable criteria in mind, and that the community would be involved and have a voice in this project
• That the Holy Spirit will work mightily in the hearts of the team and the people He places around us
• That God would protect the team spiritually and physically
• For Christ to shine through us as we meet with key officials (including the King of Aflao), builders, and ministry partners
• That God would enable us to work effectively and efficiently in the site survey, programming andmaster planning, and engineering design (civil, electrical, structural) for the children's home site
• That the team and I would be sensitive to and follow the Holy Spirit's leading, not just our agenda
• For team members' time with the children to encourage each other in their faith and trust in Jesus, that He would be more loved and worshipped
• That God will continue to provide vision & direction to the Jesse Brooks Foundation for this project
• For a decisive break from all fetishism and occult bondages, and that true liberty in Jesus be found
• That local Ghanaian people & leaders would sense the love of Christ through this short-term team and the long-term ministry
• For God to use this site to draw more Ewe, Kabye, Mina, Fon, Dagomba, Bimoba, Wala, Hausa, Fulani, Zerma, and other peoples in the Ghana/Togo region to Himself
• For Ghanaian believers to demonstrate a love for and unity with others that transcends divisions
• Praise God for recent increased worship of Jesus in Ghana
• For vision & leading in my meetings and investigation in Ghana for EMI's future in West Africa
• That more Ghanaian design professionals would take interest in serving the poor and praising Jesus through their professions

I recently learned that I will be leading another trip to Ghana this fall. We will partner with a university in Accra that has a 5-acre site in Accra and recently received 65 acres to expand in a more rural part of the city. The EMI design team will assist them with a master plan for their existing site, as well as a conceptual master plan for the future site. I am planning to visit the university while I am in Accra, so pray for my time there with representatives as we consider how best to be involved. Also, join me in praying that God would provide a team of designers who will participate in this September or early October project.

I greatly appreciate all of you who have committed to partner financially in the work God has led me to, especially those of you who have recently begun or increased your level of giving! I am blessed by God's provision through you as I live in this privileged place of dependence on Him.

 
I am currently $260 per month below full funding due to a few recent contribution changes and the loss of one significant partner. Thank you for lifting this need before our Father so that He will be glorified!

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