Hello everyone,
We are sitting in our new office in Monrovia at the office of the Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy. The staff has graciously allowed us to set up our office here in order to be certified as an International NGO. Our papers were filed yesterday, 3/2, with the Foreign Ministry after having to comply with Liberian Law. This certification is the gateway to our future success in many ways. So far the trip is fantastic. God is working mightily in and through us.
We will be travelling to Bong County Fri-Sun with Mrs Jewell Taylor. Friday we will meet with healthcare officials and Saturday there will be a series of Women's meetings with various churches. Sunday we will sing and preach in an ACFI Church in Bong.
Please pray for our contiued health and safety. Isela is having some disagreement with the local food. She loves the food and the flavor but it is mostly prepared with heavy palm oil. Thank you Lord for peanut butter and jelly with bottled water.
There have been some attacks on Christian facilities in Lofa County and there is the threat of violence between the muslims and others as a result of the death of a young woman under ritualistic circumstances. Our host, the Honorable Representative (Yvonne's husband) is leaving for Lofa on Friday to perform a senatorial investigation into the event. It has received much attention all around the country. Please pray for peace since we will be touring 10 cities beginning next week. If you have your map of Liberia they are (in addition to Bong): an area in Nimba County, then Fish Town, Dweken, Buah, Gee City, Barclayville, Wedabo, Picnicesse (all these in Grand Kru), then Harper in Maryland County. Then we will be coming back through Sinoe County to Baffu Bay, then to Buchanan in Grand Bassa.
Imagine how God was thinking...we are being given large plots of property in various locations, all of which will need to be surveyed and recorded and then He places our office right in the Ministry of Lands which will be surveying and recording these properties. This office is new, air conditioned and is less than 200 yards from Capitol Hill. Furthermore it is offered to us without cost. I cannot contain my tears as I write this to declare to you all that God is AWESOME in this place. We did not even ask for this. There are many other blessings that we will share in person that there is not tiime or space to share here. We love you all and are so blessed to have been sent on this mission by our friends and loved ones. Please feel free to share the blog with others. We will write more later.
In His Name,
Fred and Isela