5.02.2010
Generator Again...
I have good news to bring you this morning! As of this morning, we have raised about 1/2 of the $4,000 needed for the generator. We are getting close! Please take a few moments and click on the thermometer to the right and give what you can if you have not yet. We really appreciate everyones help!
4.23.2010
Update on Generator
Picture of the family last night without generator...need help...
Go to www.spiritliberia.org/urgentneed-generator2010.html to help!
4.19.2010
Spirit Liberia Needs Your Support
For many of you who follow this blog, you have seen the hand of God at work on a regular basis with our ministry. Lives have been touched, futures changed, and hearts restored.
Had it not been for the support of many of you reading this blog, our ministry would have never been able to continue functioning. As you can imagine this year has proven to be difficult. Fund-raising across America is at an all-time low. People are struggling and in turn ministries are struggling to continue to function and accomplish their goals.
We praise God that we have not been drastically affected. We have, in fact, been continuing to function strong and have continued to see blessing after blessing.
I am writing this today to you to ask for your prayers and financial support for a very important project. Spirit Liberia has an immediate need for electricity at our facility in Monrovia! As you can imagine life in Liberia is difficult. But add to that difficulty living with limited to no electricity and you can imagine how much more stress, anxiety, and struggle it puts on life.
Our facilities are used for our main offices, meetings and pastoral care, community projects, and also living quarters for our family. We have been trying to function with a 5.5kw generator. For those of you who know anything about generators (which did not include me until recently!!!) this is way, way, way too small. It cannot manage the electrical current needed to run a missions compound.
To give you an idea of what we are up against, here are some of our realities of electricity right now:
- We only use electricity for a few hours in the morning and evening when getting ready for the day and ready for bed in the evening once it gets dark.
- We cannot run more than one air-conditioner in the master bedroom. This means that most days we spend in the heat of Liberia with little to no relief (believe me when I say that part of being effective in ministry is having the few hours in the evening of air-conditioning!)
- We cannot run the air-conditioner and a hair-dryer, coffee pot, or iron.
- The generator currently breaks at least twice a week. When it is down there is NO electricity until it is fixed.
- We also cannot pump water to our cisterns when it is broke, which means we get to pull water in buckets by hand and take them to the house.
- We do not have communication with our internet when it is down.
- There is no refrigeration when the generator is not working.
- There is no light and by agreement with our landlord we are not to use candles in the house – spend a day or two in Liberia and realize when it is dark it is a different darkness than we experience in most of America!
These are just a few of the realities of not having a large enough generator.
So here is the good news! A church in Phoenix has donated $5,000 towards us getting a 15kw generator. We need to raise an additional $4,000 minimum to get this purchased and installed. Once installed we will be able to have more consistent electricity and we will also be able to run it more often, truly aiding in making us more effective for ministry and aid in Liberia!
Please donate today online by clicking here or send donations via mail to:
Spirit Liberia, Inc.
2219 W. Melinda Lane, Suite B
Phoenix, AZ 85027
Thank you for your support and prayers!
Had it not been for the support of many of you reading this blog, our ministry would have never been able to continue functioning. As you can imagine this year has proven to be difficult. Fund-raising across America is at an all-time low. People are struggling and in turn ministries are struggling to continue to function and accomplish their goals.
We praise God that we have not been drastically affected. We have, in fact, been continuing to function strong and have continued to see blessing after blessing.
I am writing this today to you to ask for your prayers and financial support for a very important project. Spirit Liberia has an immediate need for electricity at our facility in Monrovia! As you can imagine life in Liberia is difficult. But add to that difficulty living with limited to no electricity and you can imagine how much more stress, anxiety, and struggle it puts on life.
Our facilities are used for our main offices, meetings and pastoral care, community projects, and also living quarters for our family. We have been trying to function with a 5.5kw generator. For those of you who know anything about generators (which did not include me until recently!!!) this is way, way, way too small. It cannot manage the electrical current needed to run a missions compound.
To give you an idea of what we are up against, here are some of our realities of electricity right now:
- We only use electricity for a few hours in the morning and evening when getting ready for the day and ready for bed in the evening once it gets dark.
- We cannot run more than one air-conditioner in the master bedroom. This means that most days we spend in the heat of Liberia with little to no relief (believe me when I say that part of being effective in ministry is having the few hours in the evening of air-conditioning!)
- We cannot run the air-conditioner and a hair-dryer, coffee pot, or iron.
- The generator currently breaks at least twice a week. When it is down there is NO electricity until it is fixed.
- We also cannot pump water to our cisterns when it is broke, which means we get to pull water in buckets by hand and take them to the house.
- We do not have communication with our internet when it is down.
- There is no refrigeration when the generator is not working.
- There is no light and by agreement with our landlord we are not to use candles in the house – spend a day or two in Liberia and realize when it is dark it is a different darkness than we experience in most of America!
These are just a few of the realities of not having a large enough generator.
So here is the good news! A church in Phoenix has donated $5,000 towards us getting a 15kw generator. We need to raise an additional $4,000 minimum to get this purchased and installed. Once installed we will be able to have more consistent electricity and we will also be able to run it more often, truly aiding in making us more effective for ministry and aid in Liberia!
Please donate today online by clicking here or send donations via mail to:
Spirit Liberia, Inc.
2219 W. Melinda Lane, Suite B
Phoenix, AZ 85027
Thank you for your support and prayers!
4.02.2010
Congratulations!
On behalf of the entire Spirit Liberia family we want to send a big CONGRATULATIONS to Morris Matadi and Brocks Pokai from the Initiative for the Development of Former Child Soldiers. They have reached their funding goal and IDEFOCS will be represented by Director, Morris Matadi at the Unreasonable Institute leadership workshops in Colorado. Good work guys! We are happy for you!
3.26.2010
Our most recent trip to Ganta went very well. We always love getting back to see our dear friends at Full Gospel. This trip had quite a lot on the agenda. We had some meetings with the church leadership to help facilitate some reconciliation within the church body. Although the meetings were not easy, God took control and it was a blessing for all. Praise the Lord! God has some wonderful plans for these people and we are excited to see what He will do here.
Church Meeting
Visiting Kpoapa (village in Nimba where Full Gospel has a church branch and also where their farm projects are located).
I was able to reconnect with a friend I met here over 1 year ago. It was a happy time!
Full Gospel's Plantain Farm (a project sponsored by Spirit Liberia)
Full Gospel Kpoapa branch newly renovated church building.
Our recent vehicle purchase, a toyota 4 runner. This isthe first time we have been able to drive our own vehicle to the bush since moving to Liberia. What a blessing! No renting :-)
Full Gospel garden project site, also sponsored by Spirit Liberia.
Full Gospel Cassava farm site in the beginning stages of clearing. Also a project we are partnering with them on.
Next I will post on the prisons we were able to visit on this trip as well! We always try to pack as much into these trips as possible. It can be very expensive to travel to Ganta and beyond so we want to make it well worth it! Thanks and God Bless!!!
Church Meeting
Visiting Kpoapa (village in Nimba where Full Gospel has a church branch and also where their farm projects are located).
I was able to reconnect with a friend I met here over 1 year ago. It was a happy time!
Full Gospel's Plantain Farm (a project sponsored by Spirit Liberia)
Full Gospel Kpoapa branch newly renovated church building.
Our recent vehicle purchase, a toyota 4 runner. This isthe first time we have been able to drive our own vehicle to the bush since moving to Liberia. What a blessing! No renting :-)
Full Gospel garden project site, also sponsored by Spirit Liberia.
Full Gospel Cassava farm site in the beginning stages of clearing. Also a project we are partnering with them on.
Next I will post on the prisons we were able to visit on this trip as well! We always try to pack as much into these trips as possible. It can be very expensive to travel to Ganta and beyond so we want to make it well worth it! Thanks and God Bless!!!
3.06.2010
Back from Nimba County
Matty in Nimba County with one of his favorite people, Pastor Richards :-)We just returned from a quick trip to Nimba County. It was a great trip and we are thankful to God for taking us and bringing us back safely! I will update more on the trip soon.
2.24.2010
Margibi Project with IDEFOCS (Initiative for the development of former child soldiers
Beautiful Mount Gibi
Last year we met a couple of guys from a group called IDEFOCS. They are former child soldiers working toward the rehabilitation and reintigration of former child soldiers. We have been priviledged to partner with them and sponsor an agricultural project in Margibi County, an area known as Peterstown. We will be doing many more projects with them including spiritual counseling with the former child soldiers that they are working with.
We had the pleasure of taking a trip last year to see their agricultural sites and put together a plan for a peanut project. The farm is underway and we will be taking a few more trips out to Peterstown soon and doing some additional work in the community there.
One of our staff members, Mark Koffa, is from Peterstown. This project has been close to his heart. He is so happy to see that he is able to be a part of helping the community he is from, and where much of his family including his mother and father are still living.
The area is beautiful! After leaving the main road you drive for about an hour (depending on the road conditions at the time) through a rubber plantation. The backdrop is a beautiful view of Mt. Gibi.
This area is a source of serious spiritual stronghold. There is a lot of spiritism practiced here in Africa, and this area of Margibi has a notorious reputation for this.
The road leading us through the rubber plantation. Beautiful.
A VERY rough spot in the road. We had to all get down from the car and walk to the bottom while Mark slid the car down this very muddy trench!
Group picture with some of the staff from IDEFOCS and a couple of local motorcyclists who were leading us to the right road.
Walking in the bush to see the farm site.
Mark and I with Mr. Printher, the agricultural specialist who is managing the farm and also teaching agriculture to the former child soldiers.
Gathering to discuss the farm project.
Some local cuties finishing our gatorade :-)
Walking our things into the village. Notice the pack-n-play the kid is carrying on his head! I am sure Matty is not the only baby who has had someone carry his bed into the bush on their head!
Mark graciously carried Matty all the way to the village for me.....about a 20 minute walk! This is too cute.
Greetings from some of the kids! I visited them here last year when I was pregnant with Matty and now they got to meet him!
A local woman with Matty. This little white baby is always a curiosity for people.
Some young girls in the village who are going through some initiation into the secret society. Very sad.....
Marks dad holding Matty. There is a myth here that white people can't/don't breastfeed their babies.....Matty and I have been able to help dispel that myth throughout Liberia!
The house where Matty and I help slept. My first time sleeping in a village, I have to say I LOVED it!
Artwork on the wall inside the room where I slept.
IDEFOCS has been accepted into a special program where they have the opportunity to travel to Colorado for some special training. They have to raise the funds for the trip within the next 27 days or so to qualify. Please check out their website and support them if you are led! Thank you!
IDEFOCS.org
Last year we met a couple of guys from a group called IDEFOCS. They are former child soldiers working toward the rehabilitation and reintigration of former child soldiers. We have been priviledged to partner with them and sponsor an agricultural project in Margibi County, an area known as Peterstown. We will be doing many more projects with them including spiritual counseling with the former child soldiers that they are working with.
We had the pleasure of taking a trip last year to see their agricultural sites and put together a plan for a peanut project. The farm is underway and we will be taking a few more trips out to Peterstown soon and doing some additional work in the community there.
One of our staff members, Mark Koffa, is from Peterstown. This project has been close to his heart. He is so happy to see that he is able to be a part of helping the community he is from, and where much of his family including his mother and father are still living.
The area is beautiful! After leaving the main road you drive for about an hour (depending on the road conditions at the time) through a rubber plantation. The backdrop is a beautiful view of Mt. Gibi.
This area is a source of serious spiritual stronghold. There is a lot of spiritism practiced here in Africa, and this area of Margibi has a notorious reputation for this.
The road leading us through the rubber plantation. Beautiful.
A VERY rough spot in the road. We had to all get down from the car and walk to the bottom while Mark slid the car down this very muddy trench!
Group picture with some of the staff from IDEFOCS and a couple of local motorcyclists who were leading us to the right road.
Walking in the bush to see the farm site.
Mark and I with Mr. Printher, the agricultural specialist who is managing the farm and also teaching agriculture to the former child soldiers.
Gathering to discuss the farm project.
Some local cuties finishing our gatorade :-)
Walking our things into the village. Notice the pack-n-play the kid is carrying on his head! I am sure Matty is not the only baby who has had someone carry his bed into the bush on their head!
Mark graciously carried Matty all the way to the village for me.....about a 20 minute walk! This is too cute.
Greetings from some of the kids! I visited them here last year when I was pregnant with Matty and now they got to meet him!
A local woman with Matty. This little white baby is always a curiosity for people.
Some young girls in the village who are going through some initiation into the secret society. Very sad.....
Marks dad holding Matty. There is a myth here that white people can't/don't breastfeed their babies.....Matty and I have been able to help dispel that myth throughout Liberia!
The house where Matty and I help slept. My first time sleeping in a village, I have to say I LOVED it!
Artwork on the wall inside the room where I slept.
IDEFOCS has been accepted into a special program where they have the opportunity to travel to Colorado for some special training. They have to raise the funds for the trip within the next 27 days or so to qualify. Please check out their website and support them if you are led! Thank you!
IDEFOCS.org
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