Another Relationship in the Making

If you have been following this blog, you have met Eleazar Gbengan before.  He's the Program Director at ABCU.  But that's just ONE HAT he wears.  This past weekend, he and a group of students went back to the BIG REFUGEE camp in which they've been ministering this year.  This weekend was their third trip there.


Eleazar's home church in which he works is in Ganta, about an hour from Yekepa where we lived.  His church is the Evangelical Christian Assembly. (ECA)  He's working, however, on an association of churches in Ganta with by-laws so that their strength could make it possible for them to more fully participate with EAFC so that many in Ganta can be trained leaders in their city.  Yes, Ganta is a very large city in Nimba County.

Meet Angel, Elazar's 2 year old daughter.  She has 4 older brothers
and many, as many as 12 foster
brothers and sisters.

Eleazar mentioned Abraham, a young man in Ganta that he wants to train on the diploma level.  He spoke of Abraham's involvement in the church as one of the reasons he wants to invest in him.  Another possibility is
Emmanuel Gaye.


I'd first heard Emmanuel's name from my former housemate, Dr. Vicki Kloosterhouse.  He wants him to get
a master's in education so as to possibly someday replace her as
Dean of Education at ABCU.  Emmanuel is a part of a Baptist church in Ganta.  Through Eleazar's 
Ministerial Association, his church could participate.  Emmanuel is a junior and so has one more year to get his church on board and to find a good program of education in a university in Africa.

Emmanuel tutors community children like these
every Saturday and goes out to a village
another day during the week.  He's
putting into practice as a student
what he hopes to carry out as a career.
One evening he came to my house
to get me to help him with tunes
to music in a phonics book
he was using with the children.