Greetings from Ghana! I have read with much 'joy' the home call of our dear mother. She is gone home! She has played her part in building the Kingdom of God, so she must definitely go home to rest. I have no shade of doubt in my mind that she is with the Lord hence my use of the word 'joy'.
Nana Roberta Hampton has left her footprints in the historical soils of GILLBT. Her sacrifice and work has brought light in the dark lives of many people in Ghana. These souls will be among her jewels in heaven. I have worked very closely with Nana Roberta for only four weeks but she succeeded in infesting' me with so much zeal and commitment that I will forever be encouraged to do any work without complaining.
I worked with her, living in the same Hotel at Kumasi, to develop three primers for the Esahie Language Group of Ghana. By then I was a literacy-specialist-in-training with GILLBT. As a result of her training, I became the GILLBT representative on a Bible Society team that gave a trainer-of-trainers course to Esahie (Sewhi) language staff who were being prepared for an adult literacy program among their people. Today the Esahie people have a New Testament and literacy classes are being held throughout the language community to enable them read the Gospel.
Nana Roberta's contribution to this has been immense. She developed the Primers (Understanding With your Eyes) that are being used. Surely, hers was a life profitably lived helping others to be liberated from darkness and ignorance into the light of Our dear Lord, Jesus Christ!
She is resting in peace, awaiting the day of the greatest reunion of homecoming of all the saints.
Celebrating the useful life of a saint!
(Alexander Dotse, a Ghanaian, is the Church Relations Officer for GILLBT.)
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