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All is peace all is quiet.... Singing Christmas carols by candlelight at ELWA Hospital.. For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6Happy Christmas!

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ELWA Radio was burnt down on the 8th November 2011, but the day after we were able to restart the radio in a small satellite studio in another building. The "studio" is basically just a room at the moment but we have the CDs that were rescued from the fire already stored on shelves and Rose, in the picture, has been helping to clean the soot off them. We now have air conditioning in the studio

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I left to go to Senegal on Tuesday for some SIM meetings and will return on Saturday. Sadly, the evening after I left, ELWA Radio station was burnt down and much of our equipment destroyed. This was the day after the elections in Liberia and there has been some tension around Monrovia. There will of course be an inquiry into how this happened. No one was hurt, Praise God. As soon as the

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How many day's till Christmas? Sorry to bring the subject up so early BUT if you are thinking of "Alternative Gifts" for friends and family, can I suggest Jenny's school project here in Liberia; buying books for needy school kids. Teaching a child to read opens up so many doors here in Liberia. Happy shopping! The web address is www.sim.co.uk/gifts/alternative_christmas_gift_projects/

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We should be coming to the tail end of the rainy season soon but we are experiencing fantastic storms regularly still in the evenings and at night. Our beaches all along Liberia are suffering a plague of rather smelly seaweed.  A plague of seaweed along ELWA beach  The Liberians say they have never seen anything like it and we believe that it may be the result of exploration for offshore

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I was invited to go up country in the Samaritan's Purse helicopter, to a graduation ceremony for a discipleship programme at a village called Palakolleh. I helped give out the certificates to a group of 120 people who had been through the three month course. Dan, the helicopter pilot, and his family live next door to us at ELWA. This is a short video of the ride over rivers and forests. Enjoy

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  Children from our local church enjoying the Festival 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

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Highlights of our recent time here; Singing Liberian worship songs in our  church. We really enjoy clapping and dancing and we are beginning to understand the words we are singing. It is English.... "but not as we know it!" Meeting with the leaders of the ECUL Church. We started  working alongside the two men responsible for Education. There are 5 schools, some near, but one a long way away. They

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On Christmas Day we spent the day swimming in the sea first thing and then with various American missionary friends and their families. It was lasagne for lunch and we shared the small Christmas pudding we had brought with us. They insisted on calling it figgy pudding and sang along but I don’t think it was very popular (maybe it’s an acquired taste!) We then Skyped and phoned our families which

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The Church that has been planted by SIM over the years is called the Evangelical Church Union of Liberia (ECUL). On Sunday, to round off their week of Annual Conference we went to their final worship service. The choirs were phenomenal and everyone sang, prayed and danced over a four hour service. The preaching was powerful, four men were ordained and Will was invited to say a few words as the

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We went out trying to find furniture yesterday and although we were not successful it gave us some ideas to use a local carpenter, who we have asked to come next week. The furniture in the stores is extremely expensive and we believe that by asking a local carpenter to make something for us we will give to a local trade. We also visited the local market with Annie, our Liberian friend who

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We are sitting on our veranda in our new home in Liberia. It’s 29°C and we are enjoying a cooling sea breeze. We are watching a pair of multi-coloured lizards flirting with each other on the branches of the pine tree in front of us. We arrived in Liberia on the 23rd November at 5.00 in the morning having visited Casablanca and Freetown airports on the way. The second evening meal on the plane was

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We have got to that stage where people are saying to us, “Are you still here?” We do apologise for still being here and yes we are here until the 23rd November when we fly to Liberia. The other comment we hear a lot is “You must be really excited!” Well, yes we are, but the excitement is tinged with nervousness... Have we packed the right things? Have we got the right documents? Will our old and

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We are now back in the UK and are officially nomads. If you find us wandering the streets, please take us home for a hot meal and a bath! Actually, we are being very well looked after by Jenny's Mum and friends from church and will be visiting around the UK to say our various goodbyes. We have booked our tickets and we hope to be flying to Monrovia, Liberia on the 23rd November. It feels great

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Several months ago, when we decided to go to Liberia, moving out of our house seemed a small task! How wrong could we be!! After 20 years of living in one place and collected endless clutter (let me tell you, teachers are extremely talented at collecting useful clutter!) we have finally moved out. The attic is now groaning with the boxes of stuff we are storing for the future and we have bought a

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This is a slightly edited version of the presentation we have been using to show to supporters and those interested in what we are hoping to do in Liberia. Hope it gives you a bit more of an idea of what we are going to do. Will and Jenny Elphick's Liberia Presentation

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We have half the financial support we need to get us out to Liberia and we are very thankful to those who have agreed to support us. We need to raise an additional £1200/month. Do you feel able to be a partner in our work and commit to a monthly donation? Here are the details…We need to raise money for our flights, rent, support services from SIM, pensions, food and living costs, medical

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We are doing a presentation on what we are going to be doing in Liberia at Stonham Baptist Church, Little Stonham (on the A140) on 7th June at 7.45. We would love to see anyone who is able to come along. We will put the presentation on our blog afterwards...

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As Will has mentioned we are busy sorting the house out ready to rent it out and as is often the way when you start painting one wall the next looks like it needs a good lick of paint too. So after a few visits to the DIY store we have begun the task. Will is better with the roller and I with a paint brush but in all honesty I don't think anyone would employ us! I realise that we are in a process

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One of the things I was not looking forward to doing before we go out to Liberia was clearing out our house after having lived in it for twenty years. But in some ways it’s very therapeutic, all those old paint tins you have been keeping just in case you need to do a “touch up” job but for some reason have never used, bits of carpet stored in the loft from when you first moved in and for some

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Hallelujah! We’ve made the decision! Since we were asked to consider the possibility of Will and I going to Liberia in West Africa and for Will to lead the work of SIM as Director SIM Liberia my brain has hardly stopped thinking about the pros and cons. Initial reactions were….where? Where is Liberia, and after a session with our newly acquired world atlas, I had some information to go on. A

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