Saclepea visit

This morning came fast after a late night visiting the children of the orphanage. I had so much fun talking and showing pictures of back home with the boys and girls. A few diehards stayed up longer to talk more and we finally went to bed just before 1:00 a.m. This is the reason for the shorter blog last night.

This morning began with devotions at the same time and Jenny and I joined Mike and all the kids to sing and again share testimonies of gratefulness for how God blesses our lives. Of course under it all we knew we were leaving shortly after breakfast and that made it feel somewhat sad as we will miss them so much. Emmanuel and I went over to the school where he had the kids come out for a picture. Look at how many children are being taught at the K-9 school. It is so great to see this.

After this we shared a gift of gratitude for the workers and Mother Betty for allowing us to stay at the orphanage. Mother Betty was very emotional as she said her goodbyes. Ever since Pa Anthony passed on the goodbyes are more difficult and we do have a bond of friendship with her from the past years of visiting. She did call us tonight after church to thank us for the gift and she was back to herself which was great to hear.

We made the trip to Saclepea which consisted of heading back as far as Ganta and then heading south to Saclepea. The road from Ganta to Saclepea reminded me of the roads we faced in 2012, only now they are dry and very dusty. The road to Yekepa is good as far as Ganta then there is a stretch being worked on up to Sannequellie with the final stretch to Yekepa being a decent dirt road. I have seen improvements over the years on their roads.

Today in Ganta after getting a cold drink we headed south. The dusty roads and all the bumps made a short distance take a little over an hour to arrive. We came to a nice lunch followed by some down time to rest. We headed to church around 6:00 p.m. where Refuge Baptist church had a small group meeting for Bible study. It was so nice to worship with them tonight.

We came home to have the ladies make some GB and GB soup. It was very good. We ate out on the front porch as I experienced something new. Pastor Dennis, Emmanuel’s uncle, has power wired to his home with LEC (Liberian Electric Company). That being said this doesn’t mean consistent power. The power was off all afternoon and it just came on as we finished our late supper. Now it’s nice to have a fan to sleep with.

Tomorrow we meet with some Women of Purpose ladies at 8:00 a.m. before heading back to Monrovia for a thanksgiving service at the church.

We are definitely making use of our time in Liberia. We are looking forward to seeing our friends from Monrovia again.