The Lord has given us the unique opportunity of ministering to orphan girls in Liberia. In partnership with Brethren in the US and Liberia we are opening a 'home' in Monrovia. It is for young women who have been put out of orphan homes because they are now too old to be adopted internationally (16) and so no longer a possible source of income to the orphanage. These girls go to the streets of Monrovia with little education and no job skills in an economy that has ninety-five percent unemployment. They have nothing and must somehow find food and shelter. Their plight is tragic and immediate.
Through a young woman that we have known for some time and who is now in the US, we know of about fifteen of these young women. We have been helping some for almost two years but not in a 'house' setting.. Of the fifteen seven are pregnant. We want to take care of them through delivery and help them get their lives together and perhaps keep the others from becoming pregnant. We have good leadership and oversight in Liberia. Others have undertaken to raise seed money for rent etc and we are committed to providing food and salary for the woman who will oversee the house, to be called 'Precious Life Home of Hope' for girls.
Please pray for this most needful work. We need to provide for these orphaned ones and for their babies, setting them on paths of stability and righteousness. We also need to find a way to get suitable training in job skills and get them on their own living productive lives that honor God and provide for their ongoing needs.
KIM SMITH IN LIBERIA
Kim is living in the 'bush' working with a group of Liberian men he has trained and brought back from refugee camps in Ghana. They are evangelizing and planting churches in the villages of central Liberia. God is blessing their efforts and Kim is living out a wonderful and fruitful mission plan. We rejoice at the fruit for the Kingdom of God.
Please pray for Kim and his team.
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009
Subject: Re: Solo Town Church in Grand Gheda County
Hi,
The two month old Solo Town Church in Grand Gheda County is working in the nearby churchless villages, pictures attached. Some of our team just returned from, a 4 day visit, assisting them. They are the only church in the area. Currently they are constructing their church building, made from local materials harvested from the forest, they will not have any debt. The nearby villages want them to assist in starting churches in their villages.
One member of their church is from Sino County. He is one of the church leaders, assisting in developing the new church. After finishing his Bible, discipleship and church planting training lessons he plans on returning home to evangelize, disciple and start a church.
Every prisoner in Grand Gheda county prison now has a Bible. Most of the inmates and guards are working on the Bible lessons. We are establishing field leaders in each of the four blocks in the prison. Each block has about 40 – 50 inmates. We have been bringing them clothes and other necessities as we are able.
Next week we are sending a team into a new churchless area of Grand Gheda County. Today we received an invitation from former child soldiers we trained in Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana to assist them in starting a church. They have been evangelizing and discipling in the local village. The area was a former child soldier training ground and base for Charles Taylor. Many former soldiers are still living in the area and are trying to start farms. They have no clean drinking water, drinking from a stream, we are checking on the cost of having a well dug. We hope to send a team there in late June or July.
- Kim
PAULA IN KENYA
Paula has been able to get her continued work permit and Visa extension enabling her to continue her work near Ukunda. She lives in a mud daubed hut/house and has twenty-three children. Her front yard medical clinic continues to receive over a hundred patients a day. Wow!
Paula will be visiting the States in August (her first visit in six years) and we are really looking forward to seeing her. Please pray for her travels, her children in her absence, a place for her, her family and clinic that is hers with a suitable house.
We are so blessed by this woman's faith and perseverance.
ZOKU IN LIBERIA
Pastor Zoku has reported that the work and facility in Ganta, Nimba County has received some damage from the rains and is suffering from much use. They are in severe need of roofing material (corrugated metal), mattresses and sheets, mosquito nets, shoes and clothing and school fees. There are forty-two children. Pastor Zoku is very diligent in reporting his use of the money we send. I am amazed that he is able to do so much with so little. He has been through many trials with his health, the health and deaths of those around him, the difficulty of communication from Nimba County, and the daily burden of caring for the many children. Please remember Zoku and his children.
PERSEVERING IN JESUS
Please remember Pastor Sackie Kwalalom and Ramsey Kietah and their associates as they continue their diligent labors in Monrovia and village ministries; My Father's House Monrovia and the young men therein, the widows that we provide for; the ministries of Rev. Larry Jarbah and his associates in refugee camps in Ghana; Nelson Toe and his school in Monrovia, Liberia; Kimawachi and his new wife and their labors in Kenya.
We will share more on these ministries and the dear fellow laborers who persevere in them in the next newsletter. But please do not forget them.
Thank you in Christ....Jason
