Rebuilding local churches

I've been helping my friends with logical frameworks for the past week in Monrovia. Today I was helping Eddie, our Liberian Ministry Coordinator get his logframe organized. In the process, I learned more about the ministry that's being done here and I was reminded about this jungle church near Todee District.


This is one of many churches in Liberia that has become badly dilapidated as a result of the 14 year civil war (among other things.) They continue to worship inside this building, despite its poor condition.

However, Eddie has been explaining to me that it's difficult for a congregation to grow spiritually within such a poor structure. Therefore, part of his job is to work with congregations to rebuild their churches structurally and spiritually.

This rebuiling process consists of partnering with the local church and empowering them to rebuild their structures. The local church does all of the construction work and they supply much of the building materials such as concrete blocks. Eddie works to provide these churches with the resources that are not available in the jungle and those which they cannot afford.

In addition, the local church is offered discipleship and leadership training. Many Liberian churches are lead by pastors with little or no training. Therefore, we are coming alongside them to provide bibles and sound biblical teaching to these pastors and their congregations.

Finally, we are empowering these local churches to reach out to their greater community through events such as the Jesus Film showings. After the Jesus film usher those who have been impacted into one of these local churches in order that they can be quickly cared for by a church family.

Below is broken ground for a new church to replace the one above. Please pray for this congregation and for these ministry programs throughout Liberia. That God would use them for His glory!