Wow that man’s good! We really enjoyed our evening with Franklin Graham (son of Billy Graham ) along with thousands of other Liberians during the “All Liberia Festival”. Many enjoyed his teaching and thousands around the country took the opportunity to make a personal commitment to Jesus Christ. Now the work has really begun as the churches here begin the follow up. Our own local church is involved in this too. The Children’s Festival was a similar success and we transported 150 children in a Landcruiser shuttle service to the stadium. Jenny’s British health and safety radar was on high alert as we piled the children in until we saw the thousands of other children arrive crammed into open top trucks. Seat belts optional! The morning was filled with songs, games, dancing clowns, trick cycle riding, and topped off with an excellent Gospel message. We even managed to arrive home with all the right children - a miracle!
Early Sunday morning found us recovering in bed only to receive a phone call to say that Franklin Graham wanted to visit ELWA Hospital. All systems go then! It was great to be able to show him around and explain the hospital’s needs. Samaritan’s Purse (the organisation Franklin heads up) has requested an outline proposal about the needs of the hospital. This is a great opportunity!
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| Children from our local church enjoying the Festival |
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| Will showing Franklin Graham round ELWA Hospital |
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| What a priviledge! Giving out books to a rural school in Bomi,donated by schools in England. |
Jenny has finally completed her evaluations of ELWA Academy and the report is in draft. It was a great to spend time in the classes meeting the children and staff. There is a really strong Christian ethos in the school and we have now begun to outline training opportunities. Along with two of the ECUL Church leaders, Rev. Samuel Johnson and Rev. Boaki Hayleson, we have visited 6 of the 7 ECUL schools. We have arranged our first network and training session in April and have a number of needs, such as training materials, food and transport costs (some of the teachers will be arriving the night before from their schools which are a distance away, up country). If you would like to give towards this project you can donate through the SIM website at www.sim.co.uk/donate if you are from the UK or www.sim.org/donate if you are from elsewhere e.g. USA. Mention project number 95402.
We intend to take our first day of holiday on Tuesday this week. We plan to lounge around beside the pool in a local hotel! Ah Bliss!!
