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How your gifts to Lott Carey make God’s love real in Liberia

Lott Carey was there for you when the long-suffering people of Liberia were struggling to recover from a devastating period of civil strife.

For fourteen long years, competing militias — often making use of conveniently “disposable” child soldiers — brought great destruction. For many in Liberia, the earth shook. Hearts failed. The sun and moon seemed ready to be blotted from the sky.

Finally, thanks to strong efforts by other West African nations and the United Nations, the clouds began to break. People began feeling that the storm was passing over.

Yet many lives lay in ruins. Children who had been forced into militias didn’t know where to turn, how to survive. Illiteracy among the population as a whole was 75% or more. The empowering, welcoming spirit of God needed to be set loose.

But Lott Carey was already there for you, building on a hundred-year-long legacy of faithful service for Christ in Liberia.

The school in Brewerville operated by Lott Carey’s Liberian partners suffered much damage during the years of civil strife. But with the storm passing over, your Liberian partners threw open the doors of their two schools to more than 1,200 students — students eager to learn, students committed to pursuing a better life for themselves and their nation.

Many ex-fighters and violence-scarred youngsters were welcomed to the classroom. Without the schools that you help support, many would have been roaming the streets, forced into criminal activity in a desperate effort to survive.

Each school offers a strong program of academic learning, as well as daily devotions, vesper services, and opportunities to be born anew through an encounter with the One who forever comes among us with power and great glory.

Through Lott Carey’s partner, your work in Liberia is having an impact on the whole nation. Several graduates of Lott Carey’s schools in Liberia are now serving in the cabinet of Liberia’s first female president, the democratically elected Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.

Others are serving in other key governmental positions, including the very important truth-and-reconciliation commission, a group that is energetically seeking to heal the deep wounds left by the long years of civil strife.

It will take many years before the people of Liberia see a significant increase in their national literacy rate. It will take many years before the people of Liberia are fully prepared for that great getting-up morning. But thanks to Lott Carey, you’re there. You’re there, faithfully ministering in a way that causes those who are beaten down to look up, lift up their heads, and see beyond a shadow of a doubt that “redemption draweth nigh.”

Through Lott Carey, you make God’s love real in Liberia — and around the world.