Happy Thanksgiving

On Thanksgiving Day, we give thanks for our life and mission.

With grateful hearts we pray for blessings on our benefactors,
friends, family and our congregation as a whole.

Thanksgiving Day Greetings from the Province of Africa
to our sisters, family, friends, associates and staff in the U.S.A.

For Africa, thanksgiving is essentially a harvest related festival, celebrating communal harmony usually observed with different names and in different seasons.

Generally, it is characterised with fun and merrymaking and each culture/tribe/country has its unique customs and traditions. For instance, the Ga people of Ghana celebrate the Homowo Festival (Homowo a Ghanian word that means hooting or jeering at hunger). Like in most west African countries, it is primarily a festival of thanks for the yam which is one of the country's main food source.

In some other countries like Liberia, the people usually attend a church service where they bring along fruits which are auctioned off afterwards. Then they return home to enjoy a family meal.

Although the essence is the same, each festival/celebration of thanksgiving is exclusive and different from the others.

We are celebrating the bountiful harvest and other blessings of the year received from God.

Happy Thanksgiving Day!