I think I said something like, “Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could do something together that would make a difference in Sierra Leone, in one of the poorest parts of the country, Koinadugu District?” After the chapel, Michael, a grade 11 student came to us and suggested that the students themselves could certainly raise the amount of money needed to build a few classrooms. They set themselves a goal of $25,000. By June of that year, they had raised $65,000. The board agreed to tithe a capital campaign and soon we had enough to build the Primary classroom wing which opened for 70 students in September 2007. The picture above is nothing short of miraculous. Global Partners in Christian Education together with our US partners, Schools for Sierra Leone, has made it possible for this work to go forward. Our first students who were part of that grade 4 class are getting ready to write the WASS, the state school graduation exams.
The enormity of the road ahead for this country staggers the imagination, but we need to continue to believe in the truth of the upside down kingdom where the meek inherit the earth, and the humble will be raised up and the poor will be blessed and the rich turned away empty. We in the West have much to answer for when it comes to this country and continent. Let us be found faithful to the task ahead.