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Field Address: Box 5722 Accra. Ghana

CORETHA FULTON

GHANA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE

BACK IN GHANA

I have now been back in Ghana for 16 days, after departing from Indian apolis on Christmas. In the last newsletter I said that I was going to leave in early December, but all of the flights into Africa were booked solid, ex cept for Christmas day. At least I was able to enjoy Christmas morning with my family. Coretha and the children have remained in the states so that fur ther medical evaluation may be made on our youngest daughter, Sara. I hope that by the time you receive this, we will all be together here in Accra. Since returning I have found that some things in Ghana have changed for the better. There is now more food for sale to the people. There are more goods in the markets. The curfew has been lifted, and the borders are open. The level of Lake Volta has risen and electricity is no longer rationed, al though the power has been off for 8 of the 16 days that I have been back. Of course, the reason that we are here is not to "live like Americans",
but rather to teach. The school term began last week and I have a full

teaching load. I am teaching 14 hours and my classes are Prison Epistles, Apologetics, Psychology, and Sociology. The students are as eager as ever and the teaching is very fulfilling. We are currently in the planning stage for some exciting new projects
here at Ghana Christian College. Both of these projects will result in fur thering our goal of someday totally Africanizing the staff and faculty of GCC.

The first project involves hiring a Public Relations Officer. This will be a Ghanaian who will travel around to the churches in Ghana presenting the work of GCC. The job will carry a two-fold responsibility: 1) To inform and educate Ghanaian Christians about the work of GCC; 2) To actively seek local support for GCC from the Ghanaians, To this point, the college has always (to page 3)

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provided the loan o{^ oueA $5,000, We muld like to pay that back as soon as

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(from p. 1) been funded by American Christians. This will be a great oppor tunity for Ghanaians to be involved with supporting something that will ben
efit themselves.

The second project is the hiring of a part-time teacher, who is Ghanaian.

One of the conditions that will have to be met before we hire a teacher

though is that we must have enough local support to pay him, as well as the
public relations officer.

The next few years will be Important ones for the future of GCC. us working here ask for your prayers as we endeavor to serve Him.

All of

(from p. 4) Arrangements have been made for us to return to Ghana on the first anniversary of our original trip. We leave the states on Feb. 13 and
arrive in Ghana on Feb. 15.
with our husband/father.

We are excited at the thought of being reunited

We want to thank all of you who supported us prayerfully and financially through this difficult and trying year. You have been of greater encourage ment to us than you will ever know. We look forward to returning to Ghana

and to the ministry we have there.

coAeXha. Sttphanlz. and SaJia.

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STATESIDE NOTES

So much has happened these past several months that we sound like a soap 'pera. We've been sich, tired, hospitalized, travelling, visitingyou name
t, we've probably done it. Christmas day, my folks, our girls and I saw Rick off to Ghana. It was a ad parting, especially for our oldest daughter, Stephanie, But I was thankul we got to spend part of Christmas day with him. I spent the first week of January trying to get Sara an appointment at ames Whitcomb Riley Hospital for children in Indianapolis. I was told that bey were now making appointments for late March - early April, but they would ee what could be done. On January 9, I received a call from Riley - there as a cancellation for Jan. 16. The doctors were very thorough in their ex-linations. Sara was on her best behavior, whfch was surprising, given her eactions to other specialists we've seen. What they decided about Sara was not new or surprising, but infinitely sassuring. Although Sara is 30 months old, her motor skills are those of 15 month old. Her language/understanding skills are at a 21 month level, ust a few days before Christmas, she started to walk and talk. Both sets

f grandparents consider it a very precious Christmas gift (and so do many

ther praying, caring friends and churches). Her present level of walking
kill far exceeds her skill the day Rick left for Ghana. We are very thankul to our God for answered prayers on Sara's behalf. While Dr. Smith and his colleagues agreed that Sara should be closely ollowed the next few years, they saw no reason for us not to return to

-hana.

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