Day 2

On Tuesday morning, we traveled to our partners at DISCET – a non-denominational, Christian organization for counseling, evangelism and training. There we met with their 13 staff members, and a key volunteer. We found our hosts very welcoming, thorough, and passionate. They have a well-organized leadership team with vision (Modupe Taylor-Pierce), management (Ronald James), finance (Edwina), professional counseling expertise (George Bindi), and a developing radio ministry led by a recently engaged volunteer. Two key points drive their ministry. First, Modupe vividly recalls his central thought after the civil war was ended – two words – “never again”; so through Christ the nation must be reformed. Second, the driving mission as understood and articulated by everyone in the room (and mentioned by other Christian leaders we met), was to evangelize the entire country of Sierra Leone in the lifetime of their founder (Taylor-Pierce). The more we spent time with them (and other Christians here), the more we understood they mean business, and are truly trusting God to do this thing.

In the afternoon we decided to “stop by” the World Vision headquarters to introduce ourselves, and confirm the visit to the village child sponsored by Don Miller in the Bo District (where our adopted village is as well.) This developed into a 2-3 hour conference with three of the national leaders of World Vision, who were bit cautious at first, but eventually very open about their programs and operations, and encouraging about our child visit and the mission of SAVE in general.

Because of the length of our visit, our trip to the Bethel School (built by SAVE) had to be postponed to the next morning. But we were able to stop by the Bethel World Outreach Church (who established the school) to see their pastor, Julius Laggah. We were able to spend quite a while fellowshipping with him as he and his wife hosted us for dinner.

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