Sunday morning we attended church with the Ho Branch. The church is growing faster in Africa than in anywhere else in the world and providing meeting houses for them is a challenge. Many of these congregations meet in homes or buildings that have been rented and renovated for this purpose.
Even then these buildings are not large enough to accommodate all that attend. At Ho they did not have enough room to provide classrooms for all the Sunday School classes so they have to hold some classes outside.
After the block of meetings no one seemed in a hurry to leave and they gathered around to visit. One of the young adults had a laptop that drew a crowd.
After church we loaded up our cars and headed back to Accra eating our lunch in the car. Once we got close to Tema where we would pick up the Motorway (Freeway) the traffic was a parking lot. We decided to take a detour and bypass the bottleneck by going through Ashiaman. That was an experience all of its own. The road goes from pavement to dirt and runs through the Ashiaman market. Not normally a bad thing but this week, during holiday shopping, a different story.
When we reached the center of the market we found that the road no longer supported two-way traffic but cars weaving in and out of the shoppers as they made their purchases at the vendor’s booths. The pictures hardly show how crowded it was around our car. We were barely able to squeeze through shoppers and past oncoming cars.
In these last to two pictures you can see how the road is dirt even though there is a light for pedestrians to cross the intersection which is hard to find. Notice the lady on the left with her child on her back. The biker in the last picture took a spill just as he passed us almost hitting us.
Altogether, we very much enjoyed our trip to the Volta Region of Ghana. The people are beautiful, happy and friendly, and the country is fun to see.
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