No blasphemy intended here but it’s uncanny how many people in West Africa think Lurks looks exactly like Jesus.

The examples are many:

• Every restaurant we go to someone in the staff will inevitably approach one of the others at the table and say “your friend looks like JESUS!” in hushed tones.
• When we walked into the famous Frankies in Accra a local businessmen came up with his young son who “wanted to meet the man that looks like Jesus”.
• It was especially bad in Ghana which is overboard religious. Once Lurks walked through a market there and ended up with a large group following him reverently.

After the trip we’re thinking of heading to the deep South of the US and starting the children’s birthday party circuit. When everybody else has Coco the Clown and Barney, how cool will the kid be who has Jesus? He just needs to work on a few miracles to add to his wondrous “healing” of the Cruiser…