Please Do Not Leave Us Again

Nestled up in the hills of Nimba County, the Zankunwoan Baptist Association of seventeen villages and seventeen churches was advancing with training from Southern Baptist missionaries. But in 1988, before the Liberian Civil War broke out, all SB missionaries left Nimba County. The Peoples’ of the Zankunwoan Baptist Association were abandoned and forgotten, left to hopelessness and devastation.

When Gary and I first arrived on their soil in 2008, the People showed so much gratitude, feeling that God had finally heard their groaning and sent them relief. Moved by God and encouraged by their leaders, Gary and I appealed to the Christians in America on the Peoples’ behalf. Now here we are, living among the villagers, because God through you made it possible!

But who will represent us when we leave? Still the Peoples’ cry is: “Don’t leave us again; you forgot us once, don’t forget us twice.”

The villagers are building a home for strangers to dwell among them and show them Jesus in every day living. That is what Jesus did when He left His home in Heaven to come to our earth. He became like us, He lived with us, so that we might see God!

“In the beginning was The Word, and The Word was with God, and the Word was God. And The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” Gospel of John 1:1, 14

WHO WILL CARRY ON THIS LEGACY?

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