Soap, cake pans, U.S. postage stamps, paper clips, work gloves, sheets, pot holders, tape and T-shirts are just a few of the items Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) leaders from across the nation collected in January to send to the Liberian Baptist Theological Seminary in Paynesville, Liberia.
The items were collected in partnership with Christian Fellowship Baptist Church in Atlanta, which is coordinating a project with the seminary.
The items will benefit students and be used to help refurbish the seminary, which was closed and badly damaged during the civil war that erupted in the country in 1990.
In addition to 18 boxes of items, the WMU executive board awarded the seminary a $2,000 Second Century Fund grant Jan. 14 during its January meeting. The grant will be used to fund scholarships for female students. WMU gave the seminary a similar grant last year.
Emmanual McCall, pastor of Christian Fellowship Baptist Church, and Lincoln Brownell, president of the Liberian seminary, received the donations from WMU Jan. 29 during a visit to the national WMU offices in Birmingham.
In accepting the donations, Brownell said WMU and missions education had played an important role in his life.
Through Sunbeams, Royal Ambassadors and relationships with women who worked with WMU in his native country, he grew in his faith and commitment to serving God in Liberia.
(BP)
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