Why go to Liberia?

Lots of people asked me thatbefore I left. It's eaiser to answer now that I've gone. The scripture say " the harvest is plentiful the workers are few pray to the Lord to send workers into His field". Isiah says " who will I send Who will go? and I said here am I send me."

Ok but why Liberia? Why not someplace in the US. My answer is why not both? Weekly Carol and I are involved with peoples lives with marriage mentoring or Bible studies here in the US. The best answer is prepare yourself, be willing to go where God may send you. Then pray that God will use you. The last few years Carol and I have been praying that God will open doors for us and that we will be willing to go where He sends.

This trip I learned more about fish farming. I learned a lot about prayer and worship. I had the privilege of working with Liberian preachers they are very dedicated. I also made wonderful friendships with 20 Orphan boys. I have never seen anyone work so hard in my life without complaining..

Thanks again for your prayers and support. I hope you enjoy the blog. at the bottom keep hitting older post to continue. I hope to travel to a new country in the Caribbean in Jan,
Then Carol and I hope to spend three weeks in Haiti "Lord willing"
Jeff and Carol Badgero
jandc@freew.net
231 258 4822

Why go to Liberia?

Wanna look sharp for Jesus

Saturday eve. I spoke about the lost sheep, coins and son in Luke 15

The kids got to bleat like sheep and helped me look for the lost one. The screamed with joy as I put one of the small ones on my sholder and announced he was found. They related to the lost coins. Because of post war inflation it now takes 70 Liberian Dollars to equal one american dollar. There coins are rare dow the smallest bill they use ia a $5 bill. When I asked if any had any coins many have lost them , because their not used anymore..

There was lots of good singing. One of their favorite is tomorrow tomorrow What will you say tomorrow when Jesus comes and you reject him today.

What will you say?

Sat eve. I had the privilege of staying at preacher Festus Flomos home. He said it was a 5min walk I think that was 5 Liberian minutes more like 45 American. I voluntered to cary two plastic chairs on my head, after 15 min I wish I had not. Then I looked beside me and a 10 yr boy was caring a 8' wooden bench, time to stop whinning. We arrived at there home in was in an area of rolling hills , a new settlement with lots of new buildings. Flomos home was block two small bedrooms 8x10 and a large 10x20 room that was used for church service.

They insisted I sleep in their bed and gave me a new sheet still in the pacage. Iaccepted and they slept on the floor with the 5 children.

Sunday morning came early 4:30 am . Children were up repeating scripture. The Lord is my shepherd. This was followed by prayer. The prayer was simple and meaninful Lord we thank you we are among the counted. Somebody wanna praise you, somebody wanna dance, somebody wanna hear your word but they cant, they in the hospital or the morgue but we can cause we counted among the living.

On this rock I will build my Church

Please click the play button to hear audio.

This little guy was up at 4:30 practicing.

23 rd Psalm

Sunday Morning 4:30 am she was practicing.

My hearts desire is revival

Go somebody tell them that you Love Them

Tomorrow what will you say?

Tomorrow if Jesus comes what will you say ?if you refuse Him Today!

Click on the play button for drun solo

Everywhere He went my Lord was doing good!

These boots were made for walkin!

The orginal rumble seat

Can you look beyond the forest?

This is what it first looked like.

What do you see?

The perfect location for a pond!

Cepha and Jeff

It was raining today, we started about 7:30

The head of the orphanage came looked at the progress and thought I lost my mind.

He reported to the group that I was barfoot and naked "shorts" working in the cold "70 deg"

Ebony and Ivory side by side

Center Birm for the Pond

Romeo Romeo wher for art thou Romeo
Yes this boys name was Romeo I frequently had to call out for him. How ever they were all good workers.

Progress

Church Building with Preacher Sanndy

We held open air Meetings near tis location.
Last night I hoped to finish watching Passion of the Christ. The night before we were rained out in the middle. Last night we had to technical problems. I didn't notice too much smoke got let out of the power regulator and then 5 minutes later too much smoke got let out of the projector.

I called a code smoke and tried to do mouth to projector resesitation. I saved the outside of the box however there was extensive damage to the internal parts. So much for tecnology. I decided to go the old fashion route told the old old story of Jesus and the cross. The Bible says if we lift Jesus up we will draw all men unto him. Ten people heard the word and were Immersed into Jesus. Gods word will not return void.

Tuesday am I went to the department of fisheries of all Liberia. We were recieved well. I was told the director was praying and would see me in a moment. I asked if I could go in and pray with him, so they took me in. I prayed for the man and his family and for Liberia. I explained that I wanted to help the war Orphans. The director put me with two people and a truck with "no fuel" After we put fuel in the truck we drove to the Anna Enoch orphanage and they did an assement for us. I hope to spend the next 4 days establishing a fish pond there. Please pray for sucess. I hope to sleep there so I can get an early start.
I may not get internet access again for a while.
Thanks for your prayers. Jeff

Passion of the Christ

We started the movie over three hundred came to watch half way through the rain started,
We had to stop for the night because of the rain and the open air meeting. Lord willing we will finish tomorrow.
The children stayed for the feeding!

Hope

In Jesus Name !!

Waiting for a chance

Mathew 25 Feed the hungry

Thanks to the generous donation 39 location will be feed.

Some planted some watered God added !

Brother Daniel and Family

Acts 20:7

On the first day of the week they gathered together to break bread.

Acts 2:42

They continued in the apostles teaching!
We had a very good Sunday school lesson on leadership. Moses was a good example of a leader who did not Lord it over people but took advice and divided his work load.

Jeff Adolphis and Cody

That jet lag can get you!

One of the evangelist is from Gonaives Haiti. He was a boy on my first trip in 1983 at one of the churches we visited and today we are preaching Gods word side by side in Liberia.

Reggie Thomas founder of Whitefields Missions

Reggie in front of

the school.

Anna Ennoch Orphanage

Anna and Enoch were not able to have children
They prayed to God about this and one evening during the civil war a knock came to their door when they opened it there was only a baby. The next day there was another. Today they have 80 Children! God answers prayers.

Would you like to be my friend?

Lasted about as long as the wright brothers 1st flight

I should have known better, Landings are the hardest thing. Several children rushed to assist in the mid air landing. A few modifications latter and we had a clip wing flier.

How much is that doggy in the window?

Become as a child, The children were very happy healthy and well behaved,

Raised bed garden

Raised bed garden @ Anna Ennoch Orphanage.

God helps those who help themselves.

If you don't work you won't eat

Jesus is the King of Liberia

Who is the king of your life. Liberia has made great progress rebuilding after several years of civil war. This would be a great place for any Nation to start. " If my people who are called by My name would humble themselves and pray God would heal our nation too.

I'm sending some major praises up tonight! Just got off the phone with dad- his voice never sounded so sweet! Right now they are in the Dominican and will fly out tomorrow, so of course prayers are still needed for safe travel. I know the guys are probably exhausted after sleeping on Leon's roof in tents, especially since it rained last night. However, it sounds like it was an incredible trip. God was listening to all of your prayers and I truly believe He went before them and stayed with them the entire time, guiding every move. I love it when God answers our prayers with something even better than we had planned! I was praying for them to get the truck to go from the Dominican to Port Au Prince. The wisdom of my father prompted him to pray simply for transportation. God is much wiser than I am, and provided a 45 minute flight rather than hours of travel on bad roads. I also wanted to clarify- on the last email I said they bought 16 thousand pounds of food- it was actually $16,000 worth of food equaling 32,000 pounds of food. Simply amazing! And a HUGE thank you to all of you who so generously donated to help that happen. One of my main concerns about this trip was the threat of gang violence in Cite Soleil, not to mention the unrest that can arise with huge crowds of hungry people at food distributions. I asked my dad if he noticed any signs of gangs or violence and he said ZERO. This is a quote: "The country was the most tranquil and hospitable as I've ever seen it in the last 25 years." I was so relieved to hear this and want people to know that even though sometimes the media portrays Haitian people as violent and ungrateful, that is usually not the case. The people right now are very scared to go back into their homes and most people are not in their homes, even if they weren't damaged. Dad thinks there may have been a small aftershock when they were there. He's not sure, but he did feel something. They've been told not to go back in until their homes are inspected. I don't know how that process will take place, but it doesn't sound easy. So that means right now all these people are trying to survive in very inadequate shelters. Another trip is being planned focusing on restoring building. When Jeff is back in the States, we'll send another update with more details and I'm sure pictures too. Thank you all once again for your enduring faithfulness and devotion to prayer.Lisa Seeley

Update from Haiti

Just a quick catch up.Things have gone great- only by prayer and the grace of God.We made it through customs in the Dominican Republic easily. Then we got a taxi to the bus station and arrived in Dajabon by 7 pm. We met Arcenio and he told us he did not have a truck for the next day. We prayed for transportation We didn't buy supplies because it would be too hard carrying it all on the bus. We cleared customs at 9am and got a bus at 10. We called Jeremy on the way he said there were flights out of Cap Haitien. At 3pm we were on a flight to Port Au Prince. At 3:45 we were in Port Au Prince. Leon picked us up @ 4pm- Praise the Lord. We went directly to Cite Soleil. We slept on the roof at Leon's Wednesday night. Today we went to Citi Soleil and Jeff Graham helped a medical clinic near there. John, Dave, and I went to buy food. We bought 16 K pounds of food- enough for 3 thousand families. We asked the workers to load the truck for free. After singing several songs with them they agreed. That is 7and 1/2 tons on the first load. When the truck left the depot we were going to get in the back and didn't. It turned left, started up a hill and stopped, but the brakes couldn't hold. The truck came roaring back and took out a gate and part of a wall and pinned a worker. He was ok. We were able to fix the gate and no one got too upset. The 2nd trip was eaiser. We plan to go to St. Marc for one day. Arcenio had to leave early, his wife is in the hospital. Please pray for her. Jeff Badgero

For such a time as this

Jeff Badgero and Dave Tugan from Kalkaska, MI., John Vernon from Atlanta, GA., and Jeff Graham from Mt. Pleasant, MI. will be flying out for Haiti tomorrow(Tues. Feb.2) morning. After several attempts to try to get flights right in to Port-Au-Prince they have decided to fly in through the Dominican Republic. Arcenio Jimenez, our friend and preacher in Quanaminthe, which is on the border of Dom. Rep., has already made two trips to Port to deliver and distribute food. Once on money he collected himself and once on money we wire transferred in. He said the roads were clear and he was able to make the trip in 12 hours, which is actually pretty good timing.
Emmanuel Pierre, from St. Marc also made the trip two times, once on his own and once with Arcenio. Emmanuel was able to connect with Leon D'Orleans, a friend and preacher in Port. I would like to share with you a couple of emails we received from Leon. "Happy to hear from you brother, we're still alive and are determined more than ever to serve the Lord. Our time is short, we only have today to serve. I'm very happy, pleased and encouraged by your commitment to your brothers and sisters in Haiti. Hoping to see you when you come."
"Thank you for the precious gift 'in such a time as this' when its really and truly needed. With your donation we plan to buy rice, beans and oil to pass out on Saturday to people in City Soleil. Leon and Jacky."
We are very thankful for men like Emmanuel and Arcenio and are looking forward to going and working with them. Please pray for this trip.
In His Service,
Jeff Badgero