Will This Be the LAST One?

Will I write again from this side of the Atlantic?  I "think" this is my last post, but then you know me, I seem to always find one more something that I think is worth posting.  Now whether or not I have the opportunity to report is another thing.

Early morning walk along
the beach in front of this guesthouse.
Samaritan's Purse and SIM headquarters are around here.

I think I'll just write captions describing some scenes from today.  I hope they show you some of not just the scenes describing where I went and what I did, but that they capture some of the emotions associated with what I CONTINUE to learn.


Going home TOMORROW still feels like a dream, but it certainly is a good one!  


Here's to possibly the last pictures taken in Liberia.  If you care to keep this going a little while after I get home, maybe I'll go back and show some of the shots that got left out on the first attempt at telling the story.

It was just this pretty.  So different from Gulf of Mexico beaches though.
I  didn't think walking barefoot was too smart!

Thank you all for sharing this with me. 

 May we all keep growing through                                 

                                   Africa!

Here are more pictures depicting this Saturday, April 9, 2011.

Meet Albert and Priscilla Lloyd.
Priscilla is from Nigeria, a freshman at ABCU.
Albert went to ABC before the war.  He's a leader in his denomination
and a potential master's degree student of EAFC.

A billboard I saw today.  Albert said it was an old one.
Pray for the October elections!
So much depends on that election in this country.

Can you tell what the containers we're drinking from look like?
I'd never before pinched a corner from a plastic square of nice cold water.
When I did, I squeezed and squirted water all in my face.
Many around got a laugh from that one! 

When the freed slaves got to this country, they formed
the Free Masons.  Albert says that most
politicians belong to it.  It's really big here.  This
headquarters in Monrovia.

See clothes drying on the roof, the house next door and the beautiful backdrop
of the Atlantic Ocean.  You get beautiful views of the ocean
all over Monrovia.

Freed slaves shot this cannon at the other Liberians as
they "warred" over whether or not the returning Americans would
be given any land in which to re-establish themselves.
I'm looking forward to reading the book about Mississippi in Liberia
when I get home.

This is the George Washington of Liberia, President Roberts.  (can't remember his first name)

This Baptist church in downtown Monrovia is the first church
the freed slaves built in this country.