Yesterday (Sunday) one of our (Mercy Ships) international board members invited a hundred of us to her church and back to her house for lunch afterwards. I was kind of expecting a small church and big tubs of jollof rice to eat for lunch, but reality was quite different. We went to Action Chapel, which is a huge mega-church in Ghana, and the service was much like some African churches in America I've seen on TV. The service was really loud and 2 1/2 hours, which is actually short for an African service. Once we got back to her house, which was really more like a palace, we had a very fancy full catered meal that was delicious and reminicent of a wedding feast.

Action Chapel, Accra - Photo stolen with permission from Catherine (thanks!) :)

The event ended up taking up most of the day, we got to the ship just before dinner. Last night was the 4th Sunday in Advent service here on the ship and then I played cards with Josh and Emily and Julie until nearly midnight. It was a good last night on board.