Sierra Leone Alliance: Picture Page
Text by Daryl Largis
As told to Kyle Patterson
Photos courtesy of Sierra Leone Alliance
There are a number of organizations in Western New York that have their hands, their hearts and heads involved in Sierra Leone—this tiny little country half way around the world. We brought everyone together and asked what each was doing and they shared their expertise and the resources they had and how each organization complimented each other, as a result something unique was birthed. This Alliance was formed to say we collectively want to make a difference on behalf of the faith community of Western New York for the betterment of the country and the entire nation of Sierra Leone.
Each organization involved in the Alliance bring to the table a different aspect of what we would say is the full representation of the gospel. One being more focused on Christian education, one being more focused on micro-finance development for sustainability, one having skill and ability in bringing in and installing clean water wells, another in medical and another in pastoral training and church planting. When you bring all these things together we can drop all that in a single place and really have a significant impact in a village. As a result, we started strategizing in discrete areas of Sierra Leone around releasing those assets and mobilizing around seeing the transformation in their communities.
The Alliance itself is about two years old but these partners have been there much longer. A number of things have been facilitated through the Alliance since it was formed including upwards of 30 new water wells have been drilled, several schools have been expanded, a large hospital is in the process of being rehabilitated, many churches have been started and supported and many people have gone to Sierra Leone to give of their time and talent to train and support indigenous leadership there all along the same vision of looking at the entire community and figuring out how to not only meet the needs physically but also spiritually.!
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