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Vol. 18 Issue. 02
US:
Beacon House USA
Attn. Scott Danner
7343 Ridge Rd.
Lexington, NC 27295
336-764-1900
Africa:
Beacon House Ghana PMB KA 97
Airport, Accra
Ghana
(Skype:pcnghana)
Sharing the Good News 1
Fundraising Reminder 1
Heather’s Happenings 2
Picture Montage 3
Partnership Opportuni-
ties
4
Prayer Requests and
Praises
4
Inside this issue:
Sharing the Good News
Winter 2012
B e a c o n H o u s e U S A
Clines-n-Ghana Serving the Kingdom Through the Saints
Fundraising Reminder:
Please do not forget to help us raise funds for a small mission vehicle. There is no
cost to you. All those unwanted or obsolete electronic devices can be sent to one ad-
dress and we will receive a donation. Print out a flyer and take it to work.
Go here for more: http://clinefamily.us/fundraising/recycle/
I was the guest speaker for Opportunities
Industrialization Centers Ghana (OIC
Ghana) graduation. OICG is a technical
training facility specifically targeting eco-
nomically at-risk young people. My theme
was, never let anyone tell you what you
cannot do because all things are possible
through God. The reason behind this was
to encourage the young graduates to stop
listening to all the naysayers (there had
been a lot of bad press of late in the news-
papers about Ghanaian youth) and press
onward toward their goals, knowing that
God was right there with them. Not to pat
myself on the back or anything, but I re-
ceived a standing ovation from the crowd
and dignitaries at the high table. Not bad
for a Christian college business professor
hey? ;-)
As you know, some of the kids we help
have had to leave school do to the death of
parents and hardships of life that ensue.
We are able to help them receive training
in technical fields, e.g. sewing, culinary
arts, masonry, electrical, or painting
among others. So much of the time young
adults here not only need Christ but a
means to sustain their lives. Ghana’s
economy is doing quite well compared to
the US with an estimated real GDP
growth rate of 5.7 percent. However, the
GDP per capita is still stuck at $2,500
making life for the majority here still
very difficult. Helping young adults to
gain skills so they can participate in the
economy only serves to reinforce their
faith. Beacon House had two young la-
dies receive scholarships at OICG. They
completed their training in Catering and
have found employment.
I can remember the first time I spoke to a church in the US raise funds to come to Ghana, I was terri-
fied! Now, speaking to a few hundred people, including high dignitaries, seems like no big deal. Oh, my
hand in the pocket is desperately trying to turn off my phone that is vibrating just before ringing! Still
have a few more things to learn about public speaking!
Emmanuel (left) and Bethel (right) are graduates
of the second cohort of School of Community
Development. Emmanuel will be working with his
father, a GCU graduate, in Niger. Bethel is still
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Heather’s Happenings
It’s hard to believe that it’s already 2012! Life has been so
busy since our arrival that taking time to update or write a
newsletter felt overwhelming. The best we could do was drop
occasional notes on our FaceBook page (http://
www.facebook.com/patrickheather.cline). For those who kept
up with things there you know that PC was robbed three
times after arriving last year. The house was okay but the
neighborhood was not. PC found another place and moved
before Jaden and I arrived. However, there were some issues
with that place as well.
The area, like most of the outskirts of Accra, does not have
piped water to the houses. There was a small tank, roughly
300 gallons, that was connected to a pressure pump that sup-
plied the whole house. Unfortunately, as PC later discovered,
the house was not built with pressure pipe but regular pipe
and fittings. Therefore, when the water was pressurized pipes
and joints separated. For over a month we had water coming
through the ceilings and walls. Shades of Amityville Horror!
Every time one leak was found and fixed (the walls in African
houses are concrete and sandcrete blocks) another would sur-
prise us in the night. After endless chiseling and replacing
joints we think most of the issues are now solved. However,
those of you who have city water, look at your bill. I can bet
that the vast majority of you use more than 300 gallons of
water per month! We also had two guest for a month and our
little foster daughter. We now had a different kind of water
problem, not enough of it!
Our Christmas blessing came via my wonderful friends at
Café Way Breakaway at Lifepointe Christian Church in SC.
I’m now the proud, and oh so very grateful, owner of a 1000
gallon water tank! How wonderful it is to flush a
toilet after each use! Oh how God keeps us humble!
The mornings start early homeschooling Jaden, and
now Hunter. Hunter finished up high school, or
should I say high school football and wrestling, in
January then came over. After home school, Jaden
and I walk down to the main road to take a taxi (still
not enough funds raised to buy a small vehicle) to
Beacon House (the children's home) so I can teach
the children. For a few more months we have Lynn,
a volunteer who is teaching reading in the morning
before I arrive. After sweltering in the classroom we
head home again with our little 20 month old foster
daughter who has been with us for two months. She
continues to grow in strength and has been a great
source of laughter and a few sleepless nights.
March and April will be busy months as we will be
working in Northern Ghana. We are taking bibles
and other teaching materials for the Akurugus to
use. There are large picture boards to be used for
teaching about God’s creation, heroes of the bible,
and the Life of Christ. The land papers for the
church/school should be ready at the courts for sign-
ing (which is very opportune for us as we do not
need to make a special trip to pick them up). It’s al-
ways exciting when a new Church begins but there
is also a lot of work and prayers involved as well.
Please be in prayer for Ursula and David as they
need to find a boarding school for their oldest son,
Lizzy. David still needs to find work as the mission
fund is not sufficient to support his family. How-
ever, we are all encouraged by God’s faithfulness
and feel strongly that this is the right time for this
new Church to begin.
The boys are washing clothes to get ready for their big Christmas
party. Making memories for children help a child heal from trauma.
Jesus truly is the reason for the Christmas Season!
Can you believe she
only weighed less
than three pounds
when she came to
Beacon House!
How wonderful it is
to see her playing
in the sand during
our Christmas
beach day. And
when she sings
Jesus Loves Me,
your heart would
just melt!
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Your friendly vehicle fundraiser reminder! We are
raising money for a small vehicle.
Go to: http://clinefamily.us/fundraising/recycle/
Christmas Cookies
Special thanks to Mary for baking Christmas Cookies! All the kids took turns decorat-
ing Christmas cookies. The next day the older children went to Police Hospital to sing
Christmas Carols to the children and staff. They also performed the Christmas Story.
God loves it when kid’s minister to others….it truly is better to give then to receive.
Boy Decorating Cookies
Look how intently he looks as he paints his cookies! These are for Jesus’s birthday I
have to do my best. Thank you for your prayers and support for this little boy and
his family. This time last year he had lost his mother and his older sisters were car-
ing for the family. Now both his sisters are going to school and doing very well. And
they are so thankful that God saved them in the greatest time of need.
midwife. She has one more year to complete her Midwifery course
but continues to care for orphaned children. She is truly a woman
of God as she does this all the while attending school. Once she is
fully licensed she will be the only Licensed Midwife in the Tongo
area, which basically puts a tremendous amount of responsibility in
her hands. Please keep Bertilda in your prayers as she is in a place
where physical needs can be met and be a Christian influence to the
women with whom she comes in contact.
Update on Nurse
You might remember from last year
Heather with nurses and Mommy
Laadi (red scarf and glasses) in
Tongo, Upper East Region. Beacon
House was helping a sixteen year old
girl who is caring for her 5 siblings. A
registered nurse, Bertilda (next to
Heather) has been caring for a two
year old who nearly died of Malaria.
Bertilda is now being sponsored by
Beacon House to become a licensed
Each band on the tank is 100 gallons and ap-
proximately 9 inches apart. So I guess that
makes Jaden measure up to 450 gallons?
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Prayers
Mark 9:29 And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven
out by anything but prayer.” We are boldly asking for everyone
to pray for God’s will to be done in an individual’s life who
stands between helping and saving the lives of children and his
unnatural desire for riches. He is doing everything in his power
to block the Good News of Jesus from those that are hungry to
hear. Please join us in prayer for God to deal with this person.
Pray for the planting of a new church near Bolga-Tonga, North-
ern Ghana.
David Akurugu is looking for work in Bolga so that he and his
wife can continue ministering to the people in this area.
Please pray for our mission outreach program March and April
in the Upper East Region of Ghana.
For all our Beacon House children who are attending school
throughout Ghana who started back to school in November;
please pray for them and their sponsors.
Pray for Romana as she works harder than anyone we’ve never
known, may she stay healthy and not grow weary. She does an
incredible ministry serving children.
Pray for three year long volunteers that plan to come in the
next three months. Thank you Lord!
Pray for Kayla as she is attends college and so far away from
family. Pray for her old car and funds for daily living.
Praises
God has been so wonderful to our family these past few
months and we are very thankful for His generous blessings
through the saints. We could not do our work here without
your prayers, love, and support. Praise God for you all!
There are some wonderful women in the Fort Mill, SC area to
whom we feel honored to have as partners in this labor of love
called Beacon House. God bless the Café Break-a-way ladies!
We have 4 boxes of bibles and 5 barrels of t-shirts that will be
used in April and March in the Upper East Region of Ghana.
We are thankful for these wonderful evangelism tools.
Shipping for school books!
Hunter’s full recovery from a sports accident where he broke
part of his pelvic bone while tearing away the ligament. He
has now joined us here in Ghana.
Praising God for our foster daughter who has gained one kilo
and is now healthy and strong.
Thanking God for our 1000 gallon water tank!
We praise God daily for the opportunities we have here in
Ghana to teach, to save children, plant churches, and be an
active part of the Christian community.
Partnership Opportunities
While there is nothing we can do to earn our
salvation it is God’s desire that in our salva-
tion we actively seek opportunities to serve.
We are not saved for only our benefit but for
the benefit of others. Ephesians 4:11-12 en-
courages us to seek spiritual maturity
through the building up of Christ’s church by
using our personal gifts. There are several
areas where we need spiritually mature peo-
ple to step up and use that which God has so
generously blessed you. One is prayer.
We need prayer partners to hold us up before
God. We are confronted daily with agents of
the Evil One trying to stymie our efforts at
freeing children from lives too horrible to
comprehend. Perhaps what is more horrible
are the things done to impede our work, like
officials demanding a bribe before they sign
off on paperwork to move a child from an
abusive situation. It is enough to make one
sick to the core of their being.
Heather and I are by no means perfect or any
more spiritual than anyone else in the
Church and we certainly do fail at times
when we are tested by apathy, ignorance, or
insatiable greed. The strength of our witness
to those who would thwart the work of God is
upheld through the power of your prayers.
Frustrations abound in this land of seared
consciences and at times we need to remove
ourselves before we lose our witness, or quite
possibly our minds. Your prayers and words
of encouragement are like a healing salve to
our spiritual wounds; they are coveted more
than gold and appreciated like a rare gift.
Please, keep us in your prayers that we may
be strong in the Lord and bold in our actions
where they serve the Church.
