The Game Plan

With such a great need here, it can be easy to get overwhelmed by the weightiness of the task. We serve a loving God of second chances, who wants to see this country rebuilt more than we do... but it will need to be the Liberian people who will need to restore the broken walls of her country. It is our job to come along side her...

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With that comes the question of how we will play a part in that during Mercy Ship's time here. Below is our game plan during this outreach. As you will see, there is alot of teaching in each project. This is vitally important as these projects need to be completely self supporting when Mercy Ships leaves. These goals extend until the end of the outreach in November.

THE GAME PLAN

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I. Health Care:

A. Eye surgeries- (60 million blind worldwide... 80% could be prevented or treated)

• 2,690 patients... train 2 surgeons and 20 eye health volunteers

B. "Outlook of Hope" - Max-facs- (great need secondary to lack of health facilities; cleft lip and palate- most common birth defect)

• 700 patients

C. "Orthapedic Project"- Orthopedics- (need due to neglected trauma and congential conditions)

• 150 patients

D. "Hope Reborn"- VVF- (in Africa, 1 million suffer with 80,000 new cases each year)

• 200 patients...train 3 surgeons and 3 nurses

E. "Liberia Smiles"

• 4,000 patients...10,000 procedures...400+ talks on dental hygiene...train 20 dental teachers...aid 1,000 children

F. Palliative Care- (Support the family; mobilize church and community)

• 18-24 patients and families

II. Strategic Health Initiative - (coming along side churches and communities to train 30 community health volunteers and create accountability for projects)

A. "Reason to Hope" AIDS Program

• 10 church volunteer programs
• 2 Mercy coalitions (3-5 churches each)

B. "Hope to Survivors"- (increased need for metal health aid secondary to trauma from the civil war)

• 20-30 health care workers
• 60 church leaders oriented
• 100 church leaders sensitized to need in upper Liberia

III. Community Development Services

A. "Income Generation for Women"

• 80 women to start income generating buisnesses
• train 8 women to be trainers
• beekeeping, snails, rabbits and mushrooms

B. "Food for Life"

• Train 120 farmers
• Start 60 gardens
• Mentor 12 teachers

C. "Cheesemanburg"- (cluster of 9-10 villages)

• 5 new wells
• 4 rehabilitated wells
• 2 techs trained
• 16 household demonstration latrines

D. "Congo Town School"- (coming alongside a school that a community already has underway. Currently there are 800 students meeting in a small home that the community church is running and paying rent for)

• finish 8 classrooms
• 1 toilet block

E. "Gaye Town Clinic"- (coming alongside a local church clinic already underway)

• Clinic, labs, pharmacy, offices

IV. New Beginnings

A. "Old Group 77" - coming alongside the government officials to provide a way out for disabled peoples (outcasts; those handicapped physically and socially). Significant amount of people in Monrovia.

• Support system
• Skill training for jobs
• Project life span: 3 years
• Train clinicians
• Resettle 20 disabled families

V. Church Empowerment

A. Church Leaders Conferences

• Two conferenes planned
• 400 participants/ conference
• Topic: "In Unity, reaching our communities"

B. Counselors

• Ward disciplers: comfort, support, mentor and cousel our patients on board

C. Mercy Ministries

• Orphanages
• Pediatric Hospital
• Prison Ministries

Become the face of love in action, bringing hope and healing to the poor.

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"For I was hungry and you gave Me food. I was thirsty and you gave Me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed Me. I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you visited Me, I was in prison and you came to Me"...And the King will answer them, "Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to Me".

~Matthew 25:35-36, 40