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Learning MattersSPIRITUAL FORMATION AND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION ALWAYS MATTER

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Hoping Liberia by JOHN MICHAEL HELMSHope is like currency. We can invest hope and watch it multiply with interest for future generations, or we can run a hope deficit that future generations will have to pay. Liberia is paying today for thesins of her fathers. Indeed, she is paying for sins that reach as far back as theAmerican slave trade.

Hope, or the lack of it, works that way, too. A generation can learn to behopeful from the generation before it, or it can also lose hope because of theprevious generation. This is the reason people like Dr. Olu Menjay are so impor-tant to Liberia. He inspires, teaches, energizes, and encourages today’s Liberianyouth. He builds tomorrow’s leaders. He works to convince them that theirgeneration doesn’t have to be like the generation before them. Without peoplelike Dr. Menjay returning to his native land to tell the children that all things arepossible through Christ who gives them strength, who is going to hope Liberia?

Dr. Menjay has inspired me. I believe strongly in what he is doing. I believe one person can make a difference in the world. I have seen firsthand that Dr. Olu Menjay makes a difference in Liberia. He is not alone. Many choose to join hands with him to raise a new generation of leaders for Liberia. All who join hands with Ricks Institute receive as much blessing, if not more, than those at Ricks. We discover the truth of Acts 20:35: “It is more blessed to give than to receive” (NIV).

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