Saturday, 3/13
When we met with Senator Devine earlier in the week he had set off to make arrangements for us to visit his county. We had agreed to go Friday or Saturday but if you read the last post, you can see that God had other plans for Friday. Unfortunately, Senator Devine had an accident and was unable to provide us a car and driver until Saturday. Fortunately, no one was hurt. It took most of the morning but Yvonne finally arranged transportation for us to go to Tubmanburg in Bomi County, just 2 hours away. The son of Senator Devine, Roosevelt, rode with us as we went. The Senator had given 10 gallons of gas for the trip.
Upon our arrival we picked up Bosten Devine, his other son and ACFI pastor, and Bosten guided us to the hospital where many were waiting to hear from us. Dr. Rhoda Peters and the staff listened and participated vigorously. After the meeting we visited the Paramount Chief of that area. They were in a meeting with the district Representative. The chief came out and we sketched our program briefly. He immediately saw the value to his community and promised to set up a meeting of all the chiefs in that area to decide hoe to support Tree of Life Liberia. I am believing God for 100 acres in Bomi. Even though this was not on our list, it would have been if we had known that Bomi was a pilot project of the MOH in several key mother and baby areas. The meeting with the chiefs is next weekend and we will be able to present them the entire plan.
Leaving the chief, we headed to Bosten’s church for a short meeting. I gave him 25 Moringa seeds which are turning out to be solid gold, and asked him to plant them, giving him instructions for keeping meticulous records for this scientific project. The trip back was long and tiring but we made it back by dark.