The battle for good

I can’t do this, Sam

I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are.
It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were.


And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end…because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was…when so much bad happened?


But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you…that meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, that I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going…because they were holding on to something.



What are we holding on to, Sam?
That there is some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.


Lord of the Rings - The Twin Towers

About Liberia

Lying on the Atlantic in the southern part of West Africa, Liberia is bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Côte d'Ivoire.

It is comparable in size to Tennessee. Most of the country is a plateau covered by dense tropical forests, which thrive under an annual rainfall of about 160 in. a year.

Unemployment: 85%
Literacy rate: 58%

Population (2006 est.): 3,042,004

Monrovia, 1,348,900

Languages: English 20% (official), some 20 ethnic-group languages

Founded by the freed slaves from the US in 1847, Liberia's flag is similar to that of the US

34 days!

I can hardly believe that in 34 days I will be flying over the ocean to my new home for the next two years! I am both extremely excited and tremendously scared. I have never just up and moved somewhere - let alone a 3rd world, impoverished country on the other side of the world - ALL BY MYSELF! I often think I might be crazy or something!

Yet, despite my insecurity and fear, the Lord continues to accomplish His plan for my life. I know that this is in His will for me and am excited to grow in my walk and in my faith.

Details: I am working for PLAN Loving Adoptions Now in Monrovia, Liberia. I will be managing the small office there. I will be working with one secretary, one case worker, a driver and 10 foster families. The process of bringing an orphan to the States for adoption is about 8-10 months. I am so excited get to be involved in finding the orphaned or extremely impoverished children and giving them a chance to live.

Dream finally come true!

It is finally coming true! All those childhood dreams of saving dying babies in Africa are finally coming true! At 2:51pm today - June 8,2007 - I got the official phone call that I have been accepted to work with an Adoption Agancy in Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa! I am committing to work for two years. I don't know if I am going to wake up and find out that this really is just a dream - or if mid-September I will really find myself eating rice and hauling water from the well!