September 4 to October 1

  

There are some beautiful fan palms around the Accra Temple.

 This house was recently renovated to be a church in the district of Afienya.

  

An impromptu choir was formed to provide a musical number at one of the multi-zone meetings.  It was very good since all the hymns in Ghana are sung with great gusto!  The Elders and Sisters sang together and then just the Sisters sang by themselves.

I took these pictures of one of the missionary apartments to determine if more security is required.  We will arrange to have a metal door and bars placed on the windows.

September was transfer month which meant that over 22 missionaries returned home and about the same number replaced them.  The departing missionaries were given a nice chicken and rice dinner Sunday evening and a hamburger/hotdog BBQ the following day before they left for the airport.

After the transfers were over, I took the office elders and delivered some bikes, bought some bike helmets and had some ice cream.

This is a public washroom.

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The fishing boats are made out of a single hollowed out log with added sides for a cost of less than $300.

Sardines, herring and larger fish are dried, smoked or fried for the Accra market.

The British once ruled here and one of their barracks remains.

Our guide through Jamestown was Humphrey who runs one of the schools and raises funds for the school by giving tours.

This lady was singing and trying to sell sandals.

The old British lighthouse and the beginning of a new boat.

Children running past a large patch of drying sardines.

The fishing fleet is coming in after a week on the water traveling along the coast as far as Nigeria.

The white building was built by the Dutch.

This pier was built by the British.  It is a good place to spread out nets and to jump off.  Unfortunately, this is where the majority of people in Jamestown go to the toilet!

It is a densely populated part of the city of Accra.