Life is a struggle and we never know what will come our way. In the last newsletter, I spoke of a church that was helping us build the badly needed Karen school. Things were going great and our director was really pushing to complete it before we arrived in late March. Well, while he was away someone decided that a tree might be a problem later and promptly cut it down. It fell directly on the newly constructed but unfinished structure. As with all of our projects we are limited on funds to complete them. We are sure God will provide us with money to fix this tragedy!

Our largest school, the Jeremiah Dream school, has added on the building and now has a junior high! This was all done with our African partners own money! Praise God they are getting on their feet financially and able to do projects like this! Also, they have added on to the building housing our administration offices. This is where the church meets but for the students chapel meetings it became too small! This too they did with their own money.

We have one school in the Monrovia area. It was started by one of our long-time pastors, Harris Yates. He saw these poor street kids with virtually no chance of an education and built a school. We have given as much as was possible to help him. However, that school badly needs a bathroom. What they have now is hardly describable. $1500 would go a long way in giving these inner-city kids good sanitation.

We have made great progress with our Old Folks Home feeding program. Some of you know that we are supporting two of our pastors' widows. One, Victoria, we have hired to regularly cook for the old folks. Because they are so close to our headquarters we have built a small house for her and her three children. Our African partners have been very efficient with the limited funds we raise for projects like this. Praise God the old folks will get regularly cooked meals now. We can't wait to see this in person! 

God has blessed our economic development program too! Because of Covid, things have slowed down in the logging industry. The big outfit ICC stopped logging altogether and so our supply of logs slowed down to a crawl. They offered us their marginal logs for really cheap. This is one reason we have been able to build so efficiently by using our own lumber. As they closed up shop for a while, they gave us two very valuable tools. One was the Massy tractor which has been such a big help in pulling logs. The other was an electric saw. The brand name is Mobile Dimension, it is built-in Oregon. They have hooked it up with the generator we sent a couple of years ago. The video of it operating is very impressive! Our Alive Liberia friends are also talking to someone about exporting lumber, we pray this succeeds.

As I write this, gasoline has just topped $4 and diesel $5. We had shipped our director an older Nissan Pathfinder. It has proved to be up to the job of rough roads and the hard work of towing one of our trailers. However, it gets a mere 12 to 14 miles per gallon. We had bought a small crew cab Ford pickup a few years back. The engine gave out soon after we acquired it. In Africa, the most popular pickups are these small Fords and Toyotas. They are crew cabs and mostly diesel. God has blessed us with a really good mechanic after all these years named John. He has researched and found that another good engine is around $3,000. I am concerned that as fuel costs rise, Frog won't be able to operate freely about our ministry. That little pickup should get 25 to 30 mpg. Prices are higher in Liberia than here and the world oil market is unsettled. This is an urgently needed request. Frog being mobile is crucial to the health of this ministry. 

The container we shipped so many goods in last November is due to arrive on the 12th of this month. Please pray that it goes smoothly in customs. At least the American govt didn't seize it this time! We are due to leave for Liberia on the 19th of this month. We plan on departing Africa on the 30th. There will be five of us, Karen and I, a woodworking specialist and his daughter, and a fellow from our church who will be training our pastors. Much praying, please! This world has come unglued and we are leaving the country.

Once again we wish to thank everyone who supports our ministry. Without your regular prayerful and financial support we could not do this. This life is so fragile. We recently lost our first pastor supporter, Nelson Rubble, he and his wife Mariam had helped us from 2005, he was 82. Also, my first cousin Mark Eckart, for 19 years served as the district superintendent for the Wesleyan church in southern Indiana. He was perfectly healthy and at 60 years of age died of a massive heart attack. Each day is a gift and we all need to be ready to meet God.,

God Bless,

 Phil Eckart 

 President Revive Liberia 

 812-876-4348 

 584 Sherfield Rd. 

 Spencer, IN 47460