Pasaya [pah-say-YAH] and her family had to flee their homeland when the government threatened their lives. They lived in a refugee camp until they moved to America to start a new life. Like many Hmong [h-MONG] people, Pasaya’s family didn’t know about Jesus.
Ten-year-old Moses stared out the airplane window at the large, modern city below. This would be his new home.
Daniel tells his neighborhood friends Bible stories. He recites Bible verses for them too. Daniel’s friend Pradeep [prah-DEEP] likes to hear about God. The boys sometimes stop playing just to talk about God. Pradeep likes to hear Daniel tell stories from the Bible. Daniel explains to him that Jesus died for him.
It’s Sabbath in Ghana, just as it is here. The children at Valley View University meet for Sabbath School and church in a classroom on the campus of the university.
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My name is Henry. This is Clifford, and this is Carrington. We all live in Accra, the capital city of Ghana. Clifford and I come from Adventist families. In Sabbath School we learned to tell our friends about Jesus and invite them to church.
Joseph and Mary live in a poor neighborhood in Accra [ah-KRAH], the capital city of Ghana. When Joseph was old enough to start school, his parents sent him to the nearby Adventist school because they wanted him to have a good education.
Kofi and David and Elikem [EH-lee-kehm] are friends. They attend the same school. All three boys like to share their faith with others at school. It’s their mission field.
Audrey lives on the campus of Valley View University in southern Ghana. There is no elementary school on campus, so Audrey and the other children who live at the university attend school in the community.
Elorm [EH-lorm] and her brother, Mawuli [mah-WOO-lee], live on the campus of Valley View University, the Adventist university in southern Ghana. But they must attend school in the community because there is no Adventist primary school on the campus.
It was the first day of classes at an Adventist school in western Africa. Children gathered around a table standing under a shelter on the playground. The table held neat piles of school supplies—pencils, erasers, copybooks, crayons, and bookmarks, and some cards with a picture of Jesus and the words “Follow Me.”