This year we have had about 200 Togolese Day Workers work with us on the ship. Many of them are students, Pastors, medical persons, seamstresses, cooks, shop keeps and some are unemployed. Many of them have worked with us in Benin, Sierra Leone, and now twice in Togo. What we do as Mercy Ships is impossible without their partnership. They help us translate into many of the local languages in the hospital areas (some of them speaking 5 or 6 languages), clean the ship, do laundry, cook in the galley, work on the decks of the ship painting and chipping paint. They explain the culture and customs of West Africa. They extend copious amounts of grace when we blunder through some of the customs, culture, and language. We laugh with them, cry with them, we are brothers and sisters with them. I am so blessed to call many of the Day Workers friends. Thank you for all your hard work, patience, and grace.
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