Mission Resource Office A Loss
The 210,000 square feet building is a total loss. No one was in the building when the fire erupted at approximately 7pm Christmas Eve. One firefighter sustained minor injuries while fighting the enormous fire. Doug Otto, the director for the United Way, told me that he did not think the fire got to our office which is located on the ground floor in the southeast section of the builidng, but he is confident we will have sustained major water and smoke damage. No one has been allowed to enter the building at this point, and it appears it will be the middle of next week before anyone will be allowed in.
Please pray for a new location to be found, and for all the data and information to still be in tact. Mission Resource has had difficulties with its server for the last month or so and had just completed its rebuild on Wednesday before Christmas. Compounding part of the problem was the fact that the United Way Center had just initiated a new IP phone system that was creating complications for the new server. At this point, all the effort for the new phone system and server is a moot point. Both apparently have been totally destroyed by the fire.
Please pray that we will find a new suitable home for the office. We are confident our records are okay, but the server evidently is destroyed, so we are not completely sure everything is okay. We have utilized an internet back-up system as well as a hard drive back-up that is physicallly taken out of the building periodically.
It is difficult to accept that many African handicrafts and memorabilia have probably been destroyed. On a personal level, much of our nicer furniture and household items were stored in the building as well.
Sue, Andrew and I are in Morton, Illinois with Sue's family for the holidays and will return on Tuesday. As I indicated earlier, Doug Otto, the director of the United Way told me it would be the middle of next week before any of us would be allowed in the building at the soonest.
Mission Resource had several firsts in 2009. We initiated our first wall calendar and hosted the first Earl Ketchum/Mission Resource Golf Classic were a couple of the highlights.
Please continue to pray for our project partners in Ghana.
We will keep you posted as we learn more.
Your financial support and prayers have sustained us and allowed us to continue the work that we began over 6 years ago now.
For now, the missionresource email is not working. Please contact me/us at sueketch@gmail.com
Blessings in Christ,
David
Please pray that Mission Resource will find a new home
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MRI has the potential to generate a lot of income that would go into missions here.
Enoch Nyador
Dir. GCM FAME Ghana
