At home taking care of last minute emails

In the Washington DC airport taking a self photograph

Trying again about the same amount of ugly showed up

The London Heathrow Marriott was very nice

A view outside the Bellview flight at the Ghana airport

Watching to make sure my bags did NOT get off here

Gertrude enjoying her new glasses

Shadrach on my first day in Monrovia

Kenyette and Jeremina pose for a quick shot

“My” bedroom at the new Paynesville house

My work and eating area

The generator and house at the cold water business

Jeremiah and Shadrach are very impressed with the toughness of this generator

Back of the cold water business

Side view where the new container will go

Front view where customers come each morning

The inside showing the barrels where water is bagged

Another view of the inside with a young customer

Hundreds, if not thousands, of children this age sell along side the roads to make money for food

The lady who oversees the money collection and personnel

The “new” truck (Fred, guess what’s different)

Looking up at Shadrach and Kenyette on the upstairs porch

A frontal view of the new house

Pastor Richard Wesley standing in front of Greater Love Bible Baptist Church

A closer view of Pastor Wesley

The church is very well kept with landscaping underway

Part of the new power plant immediately next door to Pastor Wesley’s house.

The 1.3 megawatt generator for power production

Pastor Wesley plans to open an internet café to help with the funding of the radio program that starts soon in Monrovia

Some help from the American people

Jeremiah watches as good for the Sinoe store are gathered

Just the start of many items to load

He wanted his picture taken so I took it

Shadrach marks items off the list as they are loaded

Topside view of the store supplies being offloaded at the house

Another view of the same thing

Progress is being made

Unloaded, carried upstairs and waiting for inventorying

Shadrach and Gertrude check each item

Jeremina is fading fast in the background

I’d say she’s almost gone

View toward the back of the new house compound

View to the side

View toward the front of the property

A little idea of the water during the rainy season

Life goes on even when it’s raining

Fred, make sure Daddy sees this as he believes every child should start drinking coffee as soon as they can sit up

Comfort helps manage the water business

Receipt 1 of the Sinoe store purchases

Receipt 2

Receipt 3

Receipt 4

Receipt 5 (I told you there was a lot of stuff purchased)

Denise, Baby Girl and some of the kids

The girls really do enjoy their time together

Gertrude’s sister, Vero gets the “blue carpet” treatment as she arrives home from her high school graduation

A better shot of Vero making her entrance

The best shot of Vero

A small graduation gift in the U.S. but a significant one in Liberia

The party is on

Many friends and family members came by

Still enjoying the party

The seating gets tight

The boys stay outside

One that didn’t fit into the previous picture

A friend from last year

Jeremina gets tired again

Shadrach poses with Pastor Albert Stewart

The beach at ELWA 1

The beach at ELWA 2

The beach at ELWA 3

The beach at ELWA 4

The beach at ELWA 5

The beach at ELWA 6

Pastor John Russell with Shadrach

Receipt for Incorporation Fees

Receipt for concrete pads for the container

Original estimate on the concrete pad work

Receipt for sand and concrete money given to Shadrach

Receipt for the $1,700 given to Shadrach for the Sinoe store

Receipt for gas and food/phone money give to Shadrach

Heavy rain

More heavy rain

People here are used to the heavy rain

Showing the limited visibility caused by the rain

The drive quickly turns to mud when it starts raining

A blockage was put in the drive to keep the street water from running into the compound

A boy pushes his load while waling with an umbrella

Jerry was our first “patient” for the new blood pressure monitor destined for the Children’s Village clinic. His vitals were 116 over 65

A taxi I photographed by mistake while trying to show a pile of garbage

The pile of garbage that I was originally trying to photograph. There is nothing like garbage services in Monrovia and it simply piles up on the streets

The Vice President of Liberia, Joseph N. Boakai, receiving a copy of Spiritual Leadership by Henry and Richard Blackaby

Vice President Boakai agreeing to promote the Crown Financial Ministries conference and attend the opening event

The first traffic light (working or not) that I’ve ever seen in Monrovia

For my wife, piles of bamboo

Shadrach and Michael Ossege of World Hope

The beginnings of our container piers

More container pier shots. This will provide a stable, level place for the container to sit as we start producing ice.

Evidence of the rainy season in one of the pier holes

Picture of the Atlantic Ocean from the Baptist Compund

The lagoon directly behind the Baptist Compound

Mayor Ophelia Hoff Saytumah receiveing Business By The Book

A second picture of the Mayor, just in case

Shadrach with Dr. Sam Reeves, senior pastor of Providence Baptist Church, our host site for the Crown conference

I needed a picture with Dr. Reeves as well

The back of Providence’s sanctuary for planning purposes

The left rear corner showing the balcony

The left side of the sanctuary showing the balcony

The front left corner of the sanctuary

The sanctuary from the back. This shot shows that we will need to darken the front windows and bring a screen for video to the conference.

Shot from the back concentrating on the ground floor

Area on the ground floor, left back that might not be able to see the projection screen.

Commission Baptist’s Leadership Conference

Pastor Hendon speaking at the Leadership Conference

Very dark shot of Pastor Hendon speaking.

Rodney with Pastor Hendon.

Front shot with Pastor Hendon

Philamina with an “I love Suwannee” shirt on

Nighttime from the inside of the mosquito net

Jeremina and Kenyette sharing breakfast

Opps, the almost dropped it.

Assistant pastor G. Mango Bay at Commission Baptist

Rhoda is getting married! She wanted Donald Hurst to know

Zinc for Commission Baptist for Janette Gibbs to see.

Jeremina and Kenyette “ham it up” for the camera

The first slide of the committee formation presentation

We were going to take each member’s picture in front of the slide but the shadows worked against us

Pastor Russell was the only committee member that we managed to get an individual picture of

The very beginning of the meeting