Update on Grant in Ghana

I thought I would update you on how Grant is doing in Ghana.

We have heard bits and pieces of the work he is helping with out there and were able to talk to him on the phone a few times and the word is he is doing very good! He has been in Ghana for 5 weeks and will be back here in Minnesota November 19th. He has a few more weeks left. He has been enjoying his time.

Here are a few pictures I took from ASON's Facebook page for those of you who do not get onto Facebook much. I think Grant will really miss Ghana when he gets home.

Love you Grant!!!

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

And Grant Is Gone!

Grant flew to Florida this morning.

He is spending a few days in Florida before he heads to Ghana on Monday.

It is actually happening!

So far this mom is doing ok.

It will be very different once Grant leaves the US.

But being in a melancholy mood, I decided to post a few picture of Grant.

Most of these, if not all, are somewhere on my blog but for our enjoyment I thought I would post them together so we did not have to search each post spanning the past five years to catch a glimpse of my second oldest,

My dear Grant.

I thought I would save you some work.

Grant,Elena,and I on the set of Jingle All The Way in St. Paul

Grant at three month recovering from his heart surgery and now look at him!

Off to Ghana!

Only the Lord could see his future.

What an awesome young man Grant grew up to be.

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Grant is Going to Ghana, West Africa!!!!!

I hope you do not mind my adding Grant's Ghana support letter on my blog.

Grant leaves at the beginning of October for 6 weeks!! Yikes!! It will be a great opportunity for him!!

I added a great video after Grant's letter. Really, it is very good.

I also added some pictures of his trip last year at the bottom of the letter.

Enjoy!!!

August 11, 2013

Dear Friends and Family,

I hope your summer is going well!

First of all I want to thank all of you who supported me either by your prayers and/or your financial gifts last year that allowed me to go on my mission trip to Ghana, West Africa last fall.

The trip was truly an amazing and faith building experience for me. I really felt like God used me in a special way there as my team and I reached out to the people of Ghana. One of my most memorable experiences from that trip was going to a rural village and attracting a crowd by spinning a basketball on a stick and performing some other basketball tricks I had learned. A crowd gathered very quickly and everyone came out of their houses to see what was going on. It was a fun way to help start our ministry there and prepared the way for the message that would be shared later by the pastor.

In addition to the good feeling of God using the gifts I had to offer, I found that I truly enjoyed spending time with the people I met there. There were several people that I got to know pretty well during that time and was sad when it was time to go.

After that mission trip, I came home knowing that this was something I wanted to do more of in the future. In the months following the mission trip, I was busy doing things at home in Waseca such as finishing my schoolwork and graduating, working a lot of hours at my job, and purchasing (and repairing) my first car. However I still kept in my mind the desire to be involved in future missions work in Ghana when the right opportunity came along.

A new opportunity has now come up which I am very excited about, This new opportunity is a second and more extended trip to minister to the people of Ghana. It is again under the direction of ASON International (Americans Serving Other Nations).

For this mission trip, which will be approximately 6 weeks beginning October 1st, 2013, I will be serving Pastor Peter with a team that will be lead by Ellen from ASON and the team will also include the Dominican Republic pastor, his wife, and their interpreter. The work will include the construction of a guest house for the church in Ghana that would allow future missionaries that come there to have a place to stay. I will help build a septic drainage system for the school on the grounds. I will also work with the youth in the Ghana church by filming skits and such that they do which will be made into evangelistic videos to help further the Gospel to the Ghana people. In addition to these projects, our team will also be involved in other outreach activities aimed at sharing the Message of Jesus with the people in the near by villages and ministering to their needs.

I am very thankful for the chance to go on this second mission trip to Ghana. I think this one is even more exciting than the first one because I have much more of a vision of how God might use me there. As with my other trip, I again ask for your prayers for me that God would prepare me to serve there and also for the people I will work with and those who we will minister to.

The other need that I have will be for financial support. Since this trip is longer than my trip last year, the amount needed will be slightly higher. In order to cover six weeks of living expenses, I will need to raise $3,500 more by late September.

I would really appreciate it if you took the time to prayerfully consider whether this is something that you would like to help with.

If you do decide to contribute financially you can mail a check to this address below with a note mentioning that you are contributing to Grant's Ghana fund. The address is:

ASON International, Inc.
1840 Sarno Road
Melbourne, FL 32935

If you would rather contribute via a credit or debit card you can call ASON directly at:

321-757-7252 

Thank you very much!

In Christ,

Grant Frye


Pastor Peter is the pastor of the Ghana church Grant and the others in the ASON team will be helping.

Now the pictures!!

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Grant's Home Tomorrow!!!

Grant and the rest of the Ghana team will be home here in Minnesota tomorrow!!!

Yeah!!!

Here is the latest email we received this morning

"I hope this finds you well. The Ghana team is well. Even so, we have experienced a delay in our travels. During our flight from Accra, Ghana to New York City, somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, our plane’s fuel gauge failed. The pilot did not consider it safe to fly across the Atlantic with a non functioning fuel gauge, so he diverted the flight to Dakar, Senegal, where we made a safe landing. Delta has accommodated us in the King Fahd Hotel, which is a luxury hotel in a safe and quiet environment.

Delta is sending an empty plane from New York to pick us up and take us back to New York. That plane will depart Dakar for NYC on Friday (today) at about 8:30 PM Dakar time, which would be 2:30 PM Minnesota time. The flight will take about 8 hours, so we should land in New York on Friday at around 11:30 PM New York time, which would be 10:30 PM Minnesota time.

We do not know the flight number for the Dakar to NYC flight, but it will be a Delta flight. We do not yet have any connection information for a flight from NYC to MSP, but the airline is working on that. We will try to communicate that when we have opportunity"

Wow, what an adventure! I am glad they are safe.

Here is a funny thing. Because I sometimes have fluff (or something) for a brain, I thought that the team was getting into Minnesota Saturday morning not Friday morning If the plane did not turn back to Africa and everything actually went as planned poor Grant would have been waiting an awful long time for us to greet him home! We would have been a day late.

It sounds like the team will stay in New York overnight tonight and arrive in Minnesota tomorrow morning so it all works out.

I am SO excited to see Grant and hear how his time went.

Here are some pictures that are on the ASON Facebook page.

I thought it would be fun to share a few of them with you all.

 

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mom