Our Love Speaks EVEN THOUGH WE ARE NOT THERE BY TRACY THOMAS, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, MISSIONS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
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am Ben Asmah, our Building Services Supervisor, is currently the longest serving staff member at FUMCR. If you have walked the hallways of FUMCR on a Sunday morning, you have seen his smiling face and heard him say “hello” to “his family.” “My family” and “my people” are part of Sam’s vocabulary whenever he talks about FUMCR or his home country of Ghana, especially the town called Kafodzidzi. Sam grew up in what was then the tiny village of Kafodzidzi in Western Ghana. He attended the village
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school, which was, and still is, the only school within miles of Kafodzidzi and the surrounding areas. This school currently serves about 650 students. Twelve years ago, Sam visited Kafodzidzi and the school, and he was distressed to see their conditions. He immediately wanted to help. He knew he couldn’t fix everything and worried that what he and his family could do would only be a “drop in the ocean.” But instead of that, Sam created the beginning of a wave of support that included partnering with FUMCR.
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