Hello from Monrovia-Liberia!

I met with Omu and her beautiful family.

They are Muslim and so open to helping their daughter. It is a scary journey for them to cross their Muslim brothers to have their daughter helped by “Christians”. We told him that the love of a child transcends all religious faiths. Omu has cancer and will be receiving medical help from Global Orphan Outreach and others who are all networking together to help her.

Today we spent time talking to a Ugandan Doctor who will be handling all our medical reports. Very nice guy. There were many mothers and babies at this hospital so we visited with many as you can tell from our pictures I posted. Haha. Also got the hospital tour along with a representative of UNICEF who was there looking into what they were doing for help there at this hospital which is good of course. Yep- kept my opinions to myself. :0)

I picked up Barvor’s visa from the embassy as well.

More tomorrow if the internet allows....

forget-me-not children need you

NEEDING CHILD SPONSORS...

With the three new FMN kids, we are in need of committed sponsors to help cover their care costs. Without sponsors, we cannot cover our costs to feed and properly care for these precious ones. Our program is growing, the foster moms are doing an amazing ministry of caring for all the FMN kids, and every child in our program is doing fantastic!

We don't want to turn away any child due to the lack of funds, so we faithfully bring a child in need, into our program, hoping that a sponsors can soon be found.

Please let me know if you would like to help. Email us or call.

Thank you so much!
Christina

come see some of Monrovia

FMN Kids

Check out the updated pics of our FMN children who are doing so very well in their foster homes. Some need sponsors so please contact us on how you can help.

http://www.globalorphanoutreach.com/OurSpecialChildren.html

You did it- Barvor Travels soon!

You did it! Thanks to many of you and Michelle (his guardian angel) Barvor will be traveling the first of April to NY for his much needed surgery. Please keep him in prayers that his sight will be restored fully and that he would have peace as this I am sure is a scary journey for him.

Adventures in Liberia

*this is a posting from Daniel as he is in Liberia with Tyler and Josh for the next month serving for Global Orphan Outreach and the Orphan Grain Project. Take time to follow their adventures in Liberia at http://tdandj.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

March 8th-

Today we got right down to business with the Clinic. After stopping
at the store to pick up shovels, diggers, string, and stakes, we were
able to start the work. We mapped out the lines for the foundation and
started digging.. which was a lot more complicated than it sounds. It
took quite a bit of convincing to have them start the process our way
(the right way). Although it wasn't a huge deal, it was just a lot of
little things and lower standards that add up to a bad building like a
lot of the ones that are here. So we met in a happy medium.. more like
the lower half of a happy medium.. and the plans were underway.

The final result before we left today was all the outer foundation
walls dug and leveled, ready to have cement and blocks laid tomorrow.
I think we started around 10:00 and left around 6:45.. which
apparently was a lot later than they would have liked. There was quite
a few comments about how the work day had ended.. which resulted in
Me, Tyler and Josh continuing to work while they watched. So if
anything they are convinced that Americans are some hard workers..
During working hours though everyone was working very hard.

We unveiled our whiteness today. About an hour or two into working
we ditched the shirts and started baking in the sun. It wasn't bad
until we got back to the house and felt the heat coming from the
sunburn. We attract quite a bit of attention as it is, in fact Pastor
Peter keeps saying "Come see my white people!", but having no shirts
and next to reflective skin I'm sure doubled the attention. We're
getting used to it though. But we're still getting used to the food..
We had chicken feet today. And then during dinner I kept chewing on
bones and finally realized I had the head and was chewing on teeth.
Teeth from a wood chuck. Or something very much like it. Surprisingly
it tasted fine, I just didn't have much of a desire to eat it after I
saw the jaw bones and also realized I was digging through an eye
socket for meat. Let's just say we are very much looking forward to
the arrival of the rest of our food.. mostly the Peanut Butter. Or at
least I am.

All in all everything is swell here in Liberia. Future hopes of the
week are to get foundations for the clinic laid, get our bag from the
airport, and get access to and empty the conex container. High hopes
from what we are gathering. More updates to come but for now we're all
crashing for the night.

Until I know I can update next, farewell.

-Daniel