Christian school aids Liberian orphans

Last updated 2/17/2009 at Noon

Principal Peggy Miller and students presented $3,500 to All Nations Ministries for charity work in Africa. photo provided

Students at Sisters Christian Academy recently presented Mike Parker of All Nations Ministries with a check for $3,500 for aide to orphans in Liberia.

On February 9, a team with members from Sisters, Powell Butte, Corvallis and Minneapolis departed for Liberia. Their mission is to bring their unique talents to a city to help the local community and church move forward. As part of that mission, they will provide medical exams and care for about 200 orphan children - including providing medicine and vitamins.

In addition, they will provide enough food for the children to have consistent food daily for a month or more when they usually eat only once a day or every couple of days.

The students and families of Sisters Christian Academy raised funds to purchase rice, beans, medication, vitamins, and hopefully a couple soccer balls for the orphans. The school started raising funds in December with a goal of $2,000 and asked staff and school families to find ways to creatively make sacrifices in their own lives in order to give to needy children across the world.

SCA chose this project because All Nations Ministries partners with other ministries such as OrphanAge, Samaritan's Purse, Desiring God Ministries, Living Water International, and SIM to bring aide to the neediest peoples and places of the world.

Liberia has been devastated by almost 30 years of conflict, civil wars, and corrupt dictators with 80 percent unemployment and 50 percent of the citizens uneducated. All Nations Ministries is a non-profit, interdenominational evangelistic ministry that focuses on preaching and teaching at local churches while meeting practical physical needs such as short-term medical relief/teams, clean water and sanitation systems, provide food, milk cows, and beds for orphans, etc.

According to Mike Parker, "SCA has significantly helped by taking on this challenge to feed and provide medicine for the orphans. The kids of SCA have raised the money for the costs of this. For $140, one orphanage will have enough food for a week plus medicine and vitamins."