We have several prayer requests we need to pass along to you.  First, we got word last Thursday, March 13^th, that Dan Sulemana Salam, our converted Muslim evangelist in Bawku, Northern Ghana, had died the day before from typhoid fever and complications.  Salam had been ill off and on since Christmas but he forbid his wife, Jamima, to tell anyone.  Finally, Jamima forced Salam to go to the hospital but it was too late.  He had several blood transfusions but went unconscious shortly after he had been admitted.  Salam and Jamina have suffered a lot for the Lord after they rejected Islam years ago.  The most devastating thing they suffered was the poisoning death of their 2 babies, both under 2 years old, by a member of Salam’s father’s house.  Jamima was nearly stabbed to death once by her mother-in-law while hanging laundry about that same time, but God saved her from any injury at all.  Salam has 2 sons about 20 years old who will try to carry on the work, but we all need God’s wisdom to know what God’s direction for the Bawku work will be.  The Christian Churches are gathering money to help pay Salam’s hospital and funeral bills, set Jamima up in a small business so she can support the family, and an establish an education fund for the 2 youngest daughters in primary school.  The funeral will either be the last weekend of March or the first weekend of April.  Please keep this family and God’s work in your prayers.  Salam will be missed!

Please pray for the Christian Church Easter Convention in Salaga, Northern Ghana, Easter weekend.  David, Jeremiah and Samuel, along with other GCU missionaries, will all be traveling about 600 miles on Thursday and Friday for the convention.  Sleeping quarters for most of the guests will be on straw mats on cement floors with a pit latrine for a bathroom, but hundreds of people are planning to attend from all over Ghana.  Please pray for safety in travel and everything involved with the convention. 

Jeremiah Couch, our nephew, is settling in quite well this second time back to Ghana.  He is hopeful his small efficiency apartment in the men’s dorm will be finished soon so he can move out on his own.  The rooms need a bit more work, so Jeremiah plans to move after the convention.  Jeremiah and Samuel just returned from 10 days in the North making cement blocks for churches that David will be taking a work team to finish in July.  More on what all they accomplished in the next newsletter.

Finally, we ask sincere prayers for the college’s internet service.  We have had very poor service since mid-December and every one is suffering.  The students cannot do class research, 5 of our faculty cannot complete work on their PhD’s, and none of us can send or receive emails on any kind of a regular basis.  Our own home internet was out 20 days in February and another 7 days already in March.  The repair men were here on March 17th and seem to have things working well again, but we really do NEED dependable internet service to accomplish the work the college has to do!