James' Trip To Liberia

I figured it is about time to fill you in on James' amazing trip to Yekepa, Liberia. He left on March 7 and after 21 hours of flying, 12 hours of layovers, and a 7 hour jeep ride, the team finally made it to African Bible College. They had a lot of work ahead of them which James dove into head first. He loved knowing what all this was going towards. He had the most fantastic time and I think was one of the only people on the team not wanting to come back yet. He loved all the people and made great friends in such a short amount of time. I tried to pick a few pictures that would give you a small glimpse of what all they did there.
In the Library a beautiful picutre of my Grandma Lois was posted along with a dedication of her life to spreading God's Word. James said it was really special having them look over all they were doing.

Here James is hanging the sign welcoming you to the Lois Lindley Memorial Library.

My cousins's husband Caleb worked furiously in getting all the computors networked. In a very unfortunate event, after gererators were switched without lowering the voltage, the school basically fried 32 of their new computors. Luckily, only two from the Library were actually plugged in at the time. The Library has 18 good computors they can still use. It was a huge loss.

The team had the opportunity to go visit a local orphanage. James had taken a suitcase full of toys and fun stuff for the kids. He was so sad to see how these kids live and overwhelmed with how much their love for God was so prevelant. Sometimes it seems it is easier to love God and trust in Him when you do not have worldly possessions to block your view of Him.

Here he is with some fo the kids. This is where they sleep. And the boy sprayed in white just got into paint is all.

Here my grandpa Verl is helping organize the books. Or maybe he is just trying to find one. I don't really know. I just thought it was a cute picture.

Liberia Team: James, Caleb, Judi, Doug, Grandpa, and Brad

Here is a great view of the Library almost done. Looks great, don't you think?

During the Dedication, my grandpa was made on Honorary Chief. Here they are with some of the students at the college.

The team were all given a ABC University T-Shirts as well.

This is during the dedication service. I love th picture of Grandma in the back.

James just figured out where they were taking him. Thank you so much for your prayers and financial support. It was a great and very meaningful trip for James as well as the rest of the team.