My Unfortunate Haircut

I made it safely to my new home in Kumasi on Tuesday! Kelly greeted me at the airport in Accra, the capital of Ghana, and we nearly ran to catch another flight to Kumasi. This was only a 30-minute flight as opposed to a long, difficult 5-6 hour car ride to Kumasi. When I arrived at Touch A Life Care Center the majority of the kids were in school except for a few home sick with chicken pox. (The kids got chicken pox on move in day Labor Day weekend and were dropping left and right.) I dropped my luggage off into my room and headed out to see the kids! I am living in a room in the younger boys home because they need house parents there. It is a nice big room with cheerful sunshine yellow walls and my own bathroom. I’m so thankful the Lord answered my mom’s anxious, persistent prayer for me to be with the kids at the Care Center instead of living in the nearby village! (Thanks mom!)


The kids are bused to school, and they come home around 4 pm so I didn’t have to wait too long to see all their beautiful smiling faces again! As soon as they got off the bus they came running when they saw I was there. As they ran they shouted, “Jenny Flowers! Jenny Flowers!” with huge smiles. I was so excited to see each one, a little older and a little bigger from the last time I saw them in 2010. After giving each one a big hug, one of the first things the kids asked was, “Why did you cut your hair?” After growing my hair out for the last two years for the children, I decided to cut it right before I left. Wrong move on my part! Joel said if I cut my hair again, he will cry. I reassured them it would grow plenty long over the next year here. It’s funny to me how they remember my hair so well even after not seeing me for almost 2 years! They are too cute!