The Witch Camp - A Love Story

Field Report from Rev. Ziblim Mohammed

I am so much excited to report to you that my mission trip to Kpatinga witches camp on behalf of IHH was accomplished and succeeded.

Seven young people from Shalom Baptist Church accompanied with me. We took 3 bags of maize and 3 bags of local rice, a food donated by IHH.

Upon our arrival the women (Witches) welcome us with a smiling faces and some of them were singing Christian songs as an expression of their joy.  I cannot explain the full details of the excitment of the women when we arrived, but I tell you the atmosphere was a joyful one. After they have gathered, I open the business with a word of prayer and begin to explain to them why we have come, after that i spoke to them how God love them and even sent His Son Jesus to come and died for them. My message was "HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS". I explained to them that even though they have been rejected by the society which accused and judged them wrongly, yet God did not judged and reject them, in the camp there is no hope for them but if they accept Jesus there will be hope for them in eternity.

After that I invited them to accept Christ and almost all of them responded possitively. I prayed for them and after them encouraged them to have fellowship with God through prayer and the word.

After all this my local team began to share the food among them. On that day, many of them had no food to eat and because of that some of them were in the bush to do a hard labor to get some food, this was told by the caretaker, in fact he lamented and encouraged us to continue supporting these vulnerable women. After we share the food the women sang Christian praises songs to thank and worship God for His blessings on that day.  I was suprise at their local songs.



Using a borrowed vehicle, the Shalom team departed at 5:00am for the long journey to the camp.



"Even though we all felt discomfort of the dust on our faces and body we felt joy for knowing that we are serving the Lord."
Rev. Mohammed



Getting ready for grain distribution



Rev Mohammed preaching the Gospel.  Many of the women received Christ this day.

A Waterless Village

Today is World Water Day 2012

Last summer, as I sat in a small village church in the Northern Region of Ghana, West Africa, waiting for services to begin, an old woman brought a bowl of liquid and sat it at my feet.  I didn't know what it was until a local villager who spoke English told me that it was the water collected at the local watering hole.  The water that the villagers drank, washed clothes in, bathed in and cooked with.  The same water that the village animals drank from and bathed in. The water the children played in to get relief from the heat.

By God's grace, Sankpem village will have clean water very soon.  Funds have been collected and a pipeline is within reach.  Please join us in praying not only for clean water, but for Living Water to reach this village, where most villagers are enslaved to voodoo.

Let's continue the fight to provide clean water to everyone who needs it.



This village woman has never add access to clean water.

Ghana 2012

The mission this year is the same as it has been for the last eight years:

Share the love of Jesus with the Dagomba tribe of Ghana, West Africa.

We show that love in many different ways, but mostly just through building relationships and Bible storytelling in mud hut villages among a predominantly Muslim people group.  Along the way we help feed hungry orphans and widows, provide training and support for the church pre-school, rock and hold infant orphans at a local orphanage, provide funds for poverty-stricken children to attend school, pray over sick children and adults, and raise our hearts and hands in worship with our African brothers and sisters.

Here is more information about the mission if you're interested:

Read more about the Dagomba tribe, an unreached people group, here.

Get more information about the trip here.

Previous mission blogs:  2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

It is the Lord Christ you are Serving

Eunice is one of the young ladies who lives in Tarikpaa.  Her father is a long-time deacon at Shalom Baptist Church. Eunice is a dedicated Christian and part of the IHH/Shalom Ghana Mission Team each summer.  She is one of the students who is sponsored by IHH.  For the past couple of years, she has been attending Poly-Technic school in an effort to get her certificate in catering.  Her dream is to one day manage or own a catering business. 

For the New Year's Day Celebration in Kushibo village, Eunice delighted in using her new skills in preparing food for the people in attendance.

We thank God for Eunice's gift of cooking and especially for her gift of serving others.  She is a wonderful example to all of us.

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,  since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. 

 Col 3:23,24

Can Short-Term Teams Foster Long-Term Church-Planting Movements?

For the past several years, our team has engaged in supporting a local village church in church planting efforts.  We do this by going into the unreached village with the Gospel.  Sometimes that means holding nightly crusades, or hut-to-hut evangelism, or both.  Once we leave the field, the local church (Shalom Baptist), follows up with strong efforts to disciple the new converts and get a church started.

If you've ever wondered whether a short-term mission team can have an impact on church planting movements in the mission field, read this article from Mission Frontiers magazine.