Gaye Town Medical Clinic

Gaye Town Medical Clinic has been on the heart of the people of the Gracie Reeves Memorial Baptist Church. They have been holding a medical clinic once a week in their church building, but there has been the great desire for a full time clinic. This is one of our construction sites and we should have the building done prior to the heavy rains.

Don Stephens, Founder/President of global charity Mercy Ships, announced today the world’s largest non-governmental hospital ship, the Africa Mercy, has successfully completed ‘sea trials’ bringing the hospital ship one step closer to enabling the vessel to sail to Africa. We are expecting the ship to be here in Liberia in May and we will all be out to welcome them – waving our white hankies and dancing with excitement.

Civic Reception – Liberia 21 March 07

We held our regular Civic Reception, this normally occurs within the first couple weeks of the ship’s arrival in a country. My friends Jean, Brenda and I are seating with Mr. Pewu Subah who is with the Monrovia Rotary Club. Rotary has been our partners many times over the years including a recent grant we received for computer equipment and 5 vehicles for the Africa Mercy.

Civic Reception – Liberia

This morning we had the great privilege of hosting some of the civic leaders of Monrovia, Liberia on board the m/v Anastasis. The group I am sharing with in the photo include some Liberians who are in the House of Representatives, in particular with the Health issues of the country. The Honorable Edwin Gaye shared some remarks following the speech by our Executive Director.

Sail to Liberia


Sail to Liberia
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Our sail has been so smooth, I had a friend take this picture today at lunch as we are sailing to Liberia with the famous backdrop of the m/v Anastasis. During the sail, I have been working on all the final project reports from our time in Ghana and preparing for the start of our field service in Liberia and all that is planned for the upcoming 9 months.

Liberia Flag


Liberia Flag
Originally uploaded by keithrbrinkman.

We are en route to Monrovia, Liberia even as I write this entry. Thankful it has been smooth so far. At our community meeting this morning, we started to learn the national anthem of Liberia as we wish to sing on our arrival on Thursday.

All hail, Liberia, hail!
All hail, Liberia, hail!
This glorious land of liberty
Shall long be ours.
Though new her name,
Green be her fame,
And mighty be her powers,
And mighty be her powers,
In joy and gladness
With our hearts united,
We’ll shout the freedom
Of a race benighted,
Long live Liberia, happy land!
A home of glorious liberty,
By God’s command!
A home of glorious liberty,
By God’s command!

All hail, Liberia, hail!
All hail, Liberia, hail!
In union strong success is sure
We cannot fail!
With God above
Our rights to prove
We will o’er all prevail,
We will o’er all prevail,
With heart and hand
Our country’s cause defending
We’ll meet the foe
With valour unpretending.
Long live Liberia, happy land!
A home of glorious liberty,
By God’s command!
A home of glorious liberty,
By God’s command!