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Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana Worship and Study Mission  Trip


Wednesday, 15 June through Friday, 1 July 2011
Approximate cost:  $4,100

This price includes round trip airfare from Detroit to Accra, group transportation within Ghana, all expenses including lodging and meals in Akropong and in the Ho-East Presbytery, lodging with breakfasts during travel days. Remaining meals will be modestly priced in good restaurants.

Highlights include:

 
• Worship on two Sunday mornings with Ghanaian Presbyterians.
•  Attend a 3-day conference at the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission, and Culture (ACI) located in Akropong-Akuapen, Ghana, followed by a 2-day Ghana Mission Network (GMN) meeting.
• Spend five days in the Ho-East Presbytery with partner congregations for worship, fellowship, celebrations, special projects, and home stays. • Visit craft/ artisan markets in Accra and elsewhere during travel days.
• In lieu of the ACI conference and the GMN meeting in Akropong or as an optional trip extension, one may tour two coastal fortresses that served as slave dungeons, make a visit to the Kakum National Park with the canopy walk through the rain forest, and visit other historic sites.
 
Final payment due by 1 May 2011

Pre-trip meetings will be scheduled in March and April 2011

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE TOUR LEADERS Karen Haak, phone 616.916.9486, e-mail < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > or John Petro, phone 269.342.6817, e-mail < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

 

Fall 2010

Several members from the Presbytery are participating in a trip to Ghana from  June 15-30.  Highlights of the adventure include worshipping two Sundays “Ghanaian” style; attending a two-day conference covering the history of Christianity and spirituality in Africa; participating in the two-day Ghana Mission Network meeting,;visiting artisan & craft markets; and spending five days with our partners in the Ho-East Presbytery.

Last fall, Rev. Alphonse Kwadzo-Kuma, moderator of the Ho-East Presbytery, Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana, spent five weeks visiting many churches in the Presbytery and addressing our membership at the Presbytery meeting in November.  For the past five years, our Presbytery has shared a covenant partnership with the Ho-East Presbytery.  Several congregational level partnerships between churches in both Presbyteries have existed during the past 30 years.  The Presbyteries are planning joint mission projects.


 
 

History

The history of the relationship between the Presbytery of Lake Michigan and the Ho-East Presbytery began with two quite separate congregation to congregation partnerships, one dating back to 1979-1980 and the other dating back to 1990-1991.

The staff of the Worldwide Ministry Division of PC(USA) encouraged us to lift up our congregational level partnerships to the presbytery level when my wife and I attended the Ghana Mission Network meeting in September 2002, before we had traveled with a group on our first tri to Ghana. This was also encouraged by the Moderator and staff of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana, when we visited them in Ghana on this trip in November 2002. The Presbytery of Lake Michigan approved the tentative covenant agreement on 11 November 2003 and it was formally signed at the Ho Bankoe Parish Church on Saturday, 30 April 2005, when we traveled with a second group to Ghana. Click here to dowload covnenant agreement.