We bring you greeting in the powerful name of our soon coming King, Jesus. We remain grateful for your timeless prayer and support for this ministry. We appreciate it so much, may God bless you. God has been faithful to us, and we want to share our recent news. Running a YWAM ministry in a postwar country like ours is not easy. The base has been open and closed three times now, due to the civil war. Now that we are open, the truth is that there are still challenges.

Most of our work for the past six months has been focused on training and evangelism, with some community development.

Training: DTS

Then we ran out of money five days before the school started, but the student numbers had increased to three, with no fees "Is it really you God that has told us to do this? This was the question we asked ourselves. Then, we still went further and borrowed $100.00 to buy food. We arranged to pay back the money, when the students had paid some fees.

But by the end of the first week we had five students and through a church in UK God provided additional $603.00 for YWAM Liberia. This amount was to be used for the DTS and other things including renovation. So we completed the dorms, the bathrooms for the students and amount left over was used to continue our base life. Wasn't that awesome? From these experiences, we have developed a greater faith in God to supply our needs.

The lecture phase was a great blessing as students and staff met with God in powerful ways. Then we all went on outreach to Guinea, which borders Liberia on its northern perimeter. Our three hours prayer walk last year into Guinea with the Australian DTS team yielded its intended fruit. We worked with a church in Nzerekori, Guinea, three hours drive from the border with Liberia. We proclaimed the gospel with a drama on the heart of man, with translation into French and Kpelle, (the language of the major tribe in that community). At the end of the drama, ten people gave their lives to Christ. After this, we travelled into other villages and shared the gospel.

Leadership development

We are also working on a leadership development seminar with some churches in the Gardnersville area, a suburb of Monrovia. The problem in Liberia and the rest of Africa is leadership. We have resources, but we don't have good managers. So, if the church can be challenged in this area, we believe, it will bring tremendous blessings. God told Adam to "take care of the garden", Gen. 1:28. Our country needs godly leaders, who will champion the cause of the poor and needy. If there will be any transformation, it must start with the Christians. We are trying to develop Darrow Miller's teaching, "Discipling Nations through Community Transformation" to make it relevant to the needs of our people.

Evangelism

We have had some of our presence felt in the offices and prison. But this year, we plan to take our drama team to schools, streets and use our mega phone in proclaiming Jesus Christ. We want to see more youth trained in the area of drama. For the past six months, we have been involved on one-on-one evangelism around the YWAM base. We have people from the community coming to our weekly community fellowship on Thursday evenings. It has been an exciting time. One evening an elderly man entered our fellowship and asks us to pray for him and his household to be committed to God. This brought joy to our heart to know that what we were doing was impacting our community.

Mercy Ministries

We plan on training community development facilitators and potential leaders, who will teach and mobilize their community in undertaking development programs. If you would like a copy of our project proposal to help raise funds for our community development projects, please don't hesitate to contact us. There is a lot that you can do for Liberia right now. We need help in developing this ministry, especially people to come with passion and skills in community development.

Youth Ministry

Recently, we met with the representative of Lifeline-Liberia, Rev. Swallie. We believe that when two work together, they can be more effective, we are planning on entering into partnership with Lifeline in the area of youth development. We have targeted a community outside of Monrovia to erect a youth center. Activity in this center will include; soccer game, Bible teaching, indoor games, health talk on HIV/AIDS, and Hygiene. We plan to also get them involved in small community development project and a weekly interactive forum on reconciliation.

Praise And Prayers

1. Praise God for all of our staff and students
2. Praise God for the successful conclusion and graduation of the DTS.
3. Praise God for the level of peace, we are enjoying in Liberia. Praise God for Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf- President of Liberia, and the Vice President Joseph Boakai.

Please join us in prayer for:

• God's protection for the team
• God's impartation during the outreach.
• God's provision for our base
• God's provision for our staff needs
• More staff in the area of community development, youth ministry, fund raising.
• A laptop computer to facilitate our communication.

God has been faithful to us, running a base in a postwar country like ours is not easy. The base has been open and closed three times now, due to the civil war. Now that we are open, the truth remains that there are still challenges. We need a minimum of $500 (exchanging staff fees) to run this base monthly. The staff are contributing a little toward this amount; most of them are finding it difficult to raise even $25.00 per month to contribute to community life. It will cost $75.00 for a single person to live basically in Liberia. For a family of three, it will cost $150.00 monthly. This is a real challenge for us. So could you please join us in prayer for base and staff support.

Yours in His Service

Jamil M. Kromah

Base Leader

Support

If you would like to support the work of YWAM Liberia financially, by sending a donation for the DTS or for staff support, please contact Jamil Kromah on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Also if you are sending money within or through the UK, please send your donation to Sue Pratt, Highfield Oval, Ambrose Lane, Harpenden, Herts. AL5 4BX.

Please make the cheque out to Youth With A Mission. Thankyou very much - Sue Pratt This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it