15 Jan Work Team in Sierra Leone
A 13-person construction team flew into Sierra Leone on January 9, and arrived at Mattru on Sunday, January 12.
The team includes several persons who are returning to Sierra Leone:
- James and Michelle (Becker) Berg, along with a son and daughter. Michelle was a nurse at Mattru during the mid-1980s, and met James when he came to Mattru with a construction crew from Canada.
- Nathaniel Burkholder. His parents, Dennis and Becky Burkholder, served at Mattru during the 1980s.
- Jimmie Cole. His parents were missionaries in Sierra Leone 1967-1969.
They will begin renovations on Harmonie House, which housed missionary nurses until the rebel war began in the early 1990s. Among other things, the team will replace the roof.
Since roofs on other Mattru Hospital buildings also need to be replaced, Global Ministries bought welding equipment to make steel truss roofs. Thanks to termites, wood trusses last just 8-10 years. The welding equipment, which this team took with them, will also be used to develop a steel fabrication shop in Mattru to provide employment for some local UB people.
Bud and Roxanne
Posted at 14:35h, 02 FebruaryWe are delighted to be reading about such positive things in Sierra Leone is specially the work being done in Mattru. May we bear witness to many many peaceful years in the future. Years of happiness and education and prosperity and kindness and love for one another.