Dear friends of Revive Liberia,

 Our God is so faithful and such a provider! I just had to share the good news we are experiencing lately. Several donations have come in lately for our school projects. We now have enough funds to install wells and bathrooms in two of our schools! This has been a need in the Fly Blue Jay school for several years. The new Karen school is out growing itself , a good water supply and good sanitation are badly needed there also. In addition to these blessings we have also secured money to put a new roof on the Fly Blue Jay school. It has been leaking badly. The salt in the sea air is terrible on metal roofs. All this is timely as the dry season has started and projects like this are much easier to undertake.

 Through the years I have mentioned Thomas and Hauwa Shelwah in my communications. I had the privilege of helping Thomas go through seminary school in Kenya around 2004. After he graduated he and Hauwa moved to Liberia. He is from Liberia and she is Nigerian. Hauwa has masters degrees in two fields. Samaritans Purse hired him to plant and build churches and she to run their HR in Liberia. Thomas ended up building 200 churches in Liberia and two for the newly formed Revive Liberia. This really pulled us out of a pinch as corruption had taken funds away for this. We had promised several Zoe (Voodoo here ) priests we would build a church, if we put a school in it, outside their village. Also, my now dear friend, Morris was promised a church. He was recently converted to Christianity from his role in Zoe. From what I could decipher Morris was what would be in the Roman Catholic faith a Bishop or even a Cardinal in Zoe. Because Hauwa did such a good job running off would be free loaders after SPs money , the lawyer on retainer was over joyed . He owned land and gave them some in appreciation in a really good area in Monrovia.

 They started a building on site for a retirement home and guesthouse for missionaries traveling to Liberia. We sent over several thousand dollars in roofing metal to cover it. It was stored in a shipping container we bought at our wood shop. While Frog was visiting here the security guard was bribed and all of it was stolen. At the time Thomas and Hauwa had moved to Niger and were managing two hospitals, one for Fistula ( a disease brought on by very young girls forced into marriage) and the other one leprosy, which still exists in Africa. After a few years they attempted to take a badly needed break and spend a year with us to recharge. They got separated at the airport due to some Nigerian military maneuvers. Hauwa and their adopted daughters traveled separately. Because of an unreasonable immigration agent she was refused entry and sent back to Africa under armed guard! I spoke of this in a newsletter several years ago. It was a terrible and traumatic experience.

 After their time was up on this contract they were assigned pastoring an international church in Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast. After they started work there God dropped into their laps something that could not be ignored, human trafficking. They started developing a ministry around trafficked young girls abondoned from other countries, tricked into thinking a good job was waiting for them in Ivory Coast. We have have a full interview with the Shelwah's on our website about this work. It's so sad and shocking but God is working through the Shelwah's to help.

 Thomas and Hauwa have traveled to Liberia for a period of rest and have been working on their retirement home and guesthouse. They were finally able to secure funding to get it roofed and ready for interior work. They have run out of money to get the inside livable. We have pictures and videos on the website showing the progress and explaining what is needed . Like all of us they are trying to plan for retirement. They have given their adult lives to the mission field. Any contributions can be sent to Revive Liberia and earmarked for the Shelwah's.

 Thanks again to all our partners in prayers, time, and finances. It will be 20 years of working in the fields of Africa this Feburary.

"This is the kind of fasting I have chosen: Share your food with the hungry, take the poor and homeless into your house, and cover them with clothes when you see them naked, don't refuse to help your relitaves. Then your light will break through like the dawn, and you will heal quickly." Isaiah 58:6-8