Working on the school project

Team in Liberia

Jacob arrived in Liberia January 15th and was followed by the team of 9 more on January 23. They spent a few days in Monrovia getting supplies and such and then headed out to Bong County. The construction work has begun on the school! Today and tomorrow is the teacher training. Please pray for the relationships that are being built between teachers as they come together for training. Please pray as well for the materials to continue to come in for the school and the team to get much of the building up before they return home.

Upcoming trip

The team will be leaving the United States for Liberia, January 22 and returning around February 7th. The schedule is full of activities and everyone is looking forward to hitting the ground in Liberia and getting to work!
LEP is hosting the second teacher training session with a focus on early literacy skills, lesson planning, classroom management, and cultural literacy. The training manuals for the teachers are almost all printed and we are continuing to gather flashcards, magnetic letters, and trays.
While the teachers are in the training sessions, another part of the team will be working with the kids conducting a two day vacation bible school type day camp, mixing Bible teaching with fun activities that help teach object lessons.
This trip also entails the start of construction on the new school building. The villagers have been working on making the bricks and gathering some of the materials for the project.
Last year, the time spent in the village out in Bong County was such a blessing for all of the team members, that this year's team is very excited about being able to spend more time out there working and getting to know the villagers.
Please pray for the upcoming trip and if God leads you donations are still being accepted for the building project.

Liberia Education Project Bags

The Liberia Education Project would like to thank Mr. Dan Lukasavage and the Graphics Communications class for the terrific job they did on printing the bags for the teacher training.

Each teacher attending the training will receive a tote bag with the training manual, notebook, and pen. We are hoping also to place in each bag: a set of addition and subtraction flashcards, magnetic letters and board, and a word game.

Excitement is building as plans are being finalized for the upcoming trip to Liberia in January 2011. Volunteers in both the US and Liberia are hard at work getting things in order for a successful trip.

Please prayerfully consider donating to the building fund.

An update

The Liberia Education Project is gearing up for the next trip to Liberia. It is scheduled for departing the United States January 22 so preparations are under way! This trip will entail working on the groundbreaking and beginning to build the new school building, a second teacher training, and Bible camp for the children.

The benefit concert was a great success-almost $2000 was raised for the school building project! Many thanks to all who helped with the planning of this event and those who were able to attend and support LEP this way. It is exciting to see the fund raising thermomter on the site rising!

Free Concert

We hope you will be able to join us for this fun event!

Donations of school supplies have been coming in and are in the process of being sorted and packed to head to the Ghenwein Mission School in Bong County Liberia. Special thanks go out to the Somerton United Methodist Church for their generous donations to LEP.

The students and teachers began the new school year on September 6th . They are looking forward to the visit by the LEP team in late January.

Donations of school supplies are still greatly appreciated as well as donations to the building fund.

photos were taken by Florence Sweger, secretary of LEP Board of Directors