You ate turkey on Thursday, bought great door-buster deals on Friday, and shopped discounts online on Cyber Monday… Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday… Let’s make it Child Sponsorship Day at the Gbarnga Lutheran Training Center! Click the Giving Tuesday graphic below… just $30/month will help change a child’s life in Liberia through the gift of education.

Don’t forget this Cyber Monday that by simply using smile.amazon.com you can have a percentage of your Amazon order donated to Gbarnga Mission. There’s no cost to you and prices are exactly the same. It’s free money that supports our mission so it’s a win-win. Follow this link http://www.smile.amazon.com and select Gbarnga Lutheran Mission Project… Continue reading Amazon Smile donates to Gbarnga Mission

We are so thankful for our donors, child sponsors, and supporters! And before you head off for Black Friday sales, pass around this “Christmas in Liberia Gift Catalog” and consider a gift for the person who has everything. Click this link and share it with your friends and family.

This beautiful baby girl is my granddaughter, Meghan, who will soon be 8 months old. Being born in a middle class midwestern American town to college-educated Christian parents with good jobs, a nice suburban home with a pet dog, surrounded by four grandparents, five great-grandparents, and a loving close knit extended family practically guarantees a… Continue reading Father’s Day Hope

Click the image below and you can shop at Amazon through their smile.amazon.com site.  Gbarnga Mission gets a percentage of every purchase…and the price you pay is exactly the same!  It’s a win-win on Mother’s Day!

Those of you following my blog know that I’ve connected with a friend, Andy, who is in the Peace Corps. He is working on a project through a Peace Corps grant to renovate a room into a science lab at the school campus where he volunteers as a math and science teacher. Check out this… Continue reading Support Andy’s Peace Corps Project

With a whirlwind of last minute projects, last minute visitors, last minute requests for assistance, last minute attempts to get the generator from the guy who promised to fix it since last May, last minute letter scribing for Moses, last minute singing to me by the cooks, and last minute packing, I finally got to… Continue reading Andy and the Ice Cream Factory

We are excited to share, Gbarnga Lutheran Mission Project received $1,388 in funding from Thrivent in 2018 through their “Thrivent Choice Dollars” charitable funds program. If you are a Thrivent member, all 2018 Choice Dollars are available to direct now – and they expire on March 31, 2019. So log into your account and direct them… Continue reading Thrivent Choice Dollars

I forgot the other highlight today – signing documents and saying farewell to Baby Foton. With a rumbling engine and a cloud of diesel fumes, he turned the corner around the warehouse wall to a new life somewhere in Gbarnga.

Ahhh, the ubiquitous rice bag. With so much rice eaten in Liberia, the empty bag has developed a duct-tape-aura. Used as backpacks, hand bags, packaging for cooking charcoal and even twine when unwoven and tied end-to-end. I recently saw my favorite use…a bassinet. A section of the fabric bag is cut and nailed to a… Continue reading Rice bag bassinet & chicks Round 3