Travel day #1

Today we woke up in Monrovia and we will now sleep in Gbarnga at a guesthouse.

After a breakfast of farina and cinnamon rolls, we took time to visit with our new friend from Minnesota, Cheryl. I mentioned her in yesterday’s post as well. We shared many stories of travel, and family and we enjoyed getting to know her. We also were visited by our friend, Abraham Youndo who stopped by. It was great to reconnect with him as well. We left home just before 2:00 in the afternoon.

We left with a new friend, David from a ministry called CCI (Cultural Crossroads, International).

Of course the car was packed as they are in Liberia with little room for passengers. It really wasn’t too bad. Jenny and I had the edges of the TV box bumping our heads as we drove. On the paved roads it’s not a problem since it doesn’t bounce around, but when we turned off to go to LCMI Gbarnga church things got interesting. Both Jenny and I slammed our heads against the TV box and laughed saying we needed to duck until we arrived.

When arriving at the church we were greeted with many members dancing and singing. They had arranged a service at church to welcome us. Us 3 visitors have the distinction of being the first white people to visit their church. This was applauded loudly as we were introduced. We all said a few words and they presented us gifts. We then got a group photo and they showed us their future plans for the church. What a loving congregation.

David is here for a Pastor’s conference he will be heading up. I believe Emmanuel is part of this as well and this is why we’re here. Schedules got a little overlapping with us and David so Emmanuel is doing his best to accommodate. We will be here until Wednesday and head to the orphanage at that time. We have 2 fans in our room and we believe we’ll have power all night so that’s what we are hoping for.