We had planned on helping the church at Kulkpeni build another building to be used for sleeping quarters when we have the seminar. The church met and the men are afraid that the rain will come before they get the building roofed and since it is going to be made from mud balls there is a chance that if it rains too much the mud balls will fall down.
I did nothing this morning but work on the pay packets for the workers and evangelists. The Ghana government has announced a minimum wage increase which causes the amount of taxes the workers pay to go down. We already had all the pay packets made up through June; all the pay packets had to be opened, refigured according to the new tax schedule and the necessary adjustments made. The workers will be happy because all of them get a few Cedis more each month. We also had to rework the spreadsheet to reflect the change in taxes. I was in our room so long this morning that the workers asked Steve if I was alright because they had not seen me and I did not help at the Child Center. At least someone noticed my absence! Ha!
Red stopped by this afternoon with a picture of the shelving unit. We were very excited that he had the frame work made. When Steve saw how big it was he got the tape measure to measure the door into the room where the unit is going to sit. The unit is ½ inch too tall to fit through the door. Red said that it would not be any problem to cut off the top of the unit. We gave him the money to buy the metal plate and to pay for the metal he had already bought. Before he brings it to the mission house he is going to spray it. It will be a light grey color but they don’t call it grey; they call it “ash”.
Steve had to make 2 trips to the GRA office today (sort of like IRS) to get the VAT (value added tax) paid on the apartment that we stayed in when we were in Accra on our trip into Ghana. The first time the network was having a problem. The guy in the office was very kind and called Steve when the network finally came back on.
The mango tree is loaded and the workers are enjoying eating as many as they can and taking some home to their families. We have lived here for years and we are still amazed that in the middle of a 6 month drought the mango trees are bearing fruit.
Thank you for all you do for us and for the people of Ghana. We really appreciate your continued support.
In HIS Service,
Steve and Kandie
