Monday, March 29th

Dan did a leadership session with ELWA Ministries. James Kesselly took Tom and me on a tour of ELWA Ministries.

The ELWA hospital has many services.



There is a pharmacy and a clinic separate from the main hospital building.


There is a dental clinic and and HIV/AIDS Counseling service as well as the ER, OR, and wards are in the main building.









The ELWA Academy has grown. There are now 500 students. I took some pictures of some of the children needing scholarships, sponsored by the ELWA Ministries Associates (EMA). You will find more information soon about that on the EMA site.

There were sure a lot of happy children given a great opportunity to have a future!




Camp Lawana is still being used.





Many homes have been destroyed but some have been rebuilt.



We visited the grave site under the big plum tree. Sidney is my sister Anna's son. We couldn't find the other grave site near the school. Jonathan's marker is just a stone now. I remember lining his coffin and making a bogenvillia cross for the top of his grave.



There were others that had been covered with bush and grass, but are now uncovered again.



The beauty of the lagoon still remains a masterpiece in God's hands.







The old carpentershop is gone, but the old Clinic then BD is now SIM Liberia office.



King Gray beach looking toward Monrovia. The devil bush is gone! Thank you Jesus!!





Dinner anyone? PalmButter and county rice! Or fresh boiled nuts with sugar! Plenty fine o', and sweet to my gut!




How many of our footprints have marked our ELWA beach? Our loving Heavenly Father says he knows the number of sand that blankets all beaches, how much more does he care for the details of where each of our feet have take us in life so far? Where has life brought you? Are you following Him STEP BY STEP?



As the sea clap their hands in praise to God our Creator, how much more does He long to hear us praise Him for all He has done and how He has gently walked with us.




After Dan's morning session, we went to Ben, Natalie and Annie (2 year old) home for pizza! It was a great time of friendship.



I went to the SIM Liberia office to talk with Joe Wonkollie and also visited with Rick Saacra the doctor who will be leaving in May. Pray for more medical staff.

I spent the next 4 hours walking, singing ad praying on the beach with my camera. I took time to reflect on some of the experiences that God allowed me to have these past 3 weeks. I watched the sun go down in the tropical harmitan season.

While I was down by the lagoon, I took a picture of a fisherman who threw his net into the sea to catch small fish to use for bate when he went deep sea fishing the next day. He came running very angry that I had taken his picture. He wanted a 'dash'. I said: Ahhhh yaaaaa, I sorry o', no my yaaaaa!" I continued to speak in Liberian English and he jumped back saying, "you Liberian o'." We laughed and continued to share, becoming new friends. He is Amos from Ghana. I told im I grew up on this beach and would collect fish from the Fanti Fishermen down the beach to bring to my Ma. He laughed. Then he told me the story about how God spoke to him while he was at sea in 2000. There were three of them fishing, their boat sank, they hung on to a small bucket they had in the boat. They turned it upside down, filling it with air, so it would float. They stayed 3 days and 3 nights at sea. They feared that fish would eat them, but they were saved. While he was out there, "Jesus came to is face and spoke to him." It was then that he asked Jesus into his life. He has been a believer since. There on the beach we celebrated a miracle story of God's goodness at sea. We became good friends.

Dan and Tom went to Youth Rally #7 at Liberian Christian Ministry, Soul Clinic Paynesville.