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Empowering Women leads to Success!
Provision of Hope continues to empower women! We have 3 women in Tailoring School. Two have already received their new sewing machines! Felecia Dyega just finished her tailoring school. We empowered her with business money to start her own small business making clothes and hand bags to sell at a local shop. Felecia attended nursing […]

“Every Student’s Compass”
Provision of Hope believes in preparing our Graduates for the next step in life! This week Daniel Coleman introduced us to Anthony Ntem who is the Liberian author of ” Every Student’s Compass” “This is a simple guide to help students deal with low self-esteem, set academic goals, choose the right career and make a […]

Two Children Needing Care
What a sad day for Malvine and his little sister Sharley! They just lost their mother! Now they have no parents! Provision of Hope was just notified about another two children who are left without parents. Their father died several years ago and now their mother just died. Their mother is the sister of Ruth […]

Empowering More Girls!
Provision of Hope keeps right on EMPOWERING GIRLS in Liberia! In a land where jobs are scarce and many struggle to meet their daily needs, we are finding that empowering young women in Liberia is working! Read the story of Jacqueline who is “living her dream!” We are all so happy for her! Jacqueline was […]
Education

Helping Poor Children go to School
Our staff in Liberia have been very busy registering children to school this week! School is about to open!! Every year we have more poor children who are hoping to attend school. We help as many as we possibly can. First we do an evaluation to see what their home situation is like and how […]

Honoring Students with High Academics!!
Every year Provision of Hope has students who surprise us with high grades. This year again, we have several students who skipped grades. We attribute this to the fact that our children are all well cared for and they have the benefit of being tutored after school. We also promote good nutrition. This year we […]

Celebrating our Graduates!!!
What a happy day for NINE of our Graduates!! They all passed their WAEC exams!! They are ready for the next step to fulfill their destiny! “May God favor each one of YOU and KEEP YOU close to His Heart. ” May YOU shine like the stars and light up the world all around YOU”. […]

Back to School in Liberia!!
Our students are very excited to be going back to school! We have over 90 students registered to start their classes this week. At Provision of Hope it’s been a very busy month for our staff. They were collecting report cards, checking in on every one’s grades and going to each of the schools to […]

Empowering Young Women is the Way to Go!
This month we want to highlight Nancy Hoff for her baking skills and Maima David in tailoring!! It all started with asking Nancy ” What is your dream in life?” She responded saying that she would love to go to a baking school and open her own catering business! “So let’s do it!” I challenged […]
Hope Homes

Merry Christmas from Liberia!
Merry Christmas Everyone!! Our parents and children would like to wish all our sponsoring families and donors a wonderful Christmas with Family and Friends! “We are so grateful for the support you give us both in prayer and in finances” ” We are always including you in our prayers … giving thanks to God for […]

Raising Leaders of Integrity in Our Homes
It’s time to make honorable mention of the kinds of leaders we are raising in our Children’s Homes in Liberia! In this blog post we will honor Samuel Kennedy and Henry Forkpa who live in Ma Esther’s Home. Samuel is the founder and coach of the Power from God Football Team. Henry is the founder […]

Reaching Vulnerable Girls
Princess Kollie comes to live in Ma Esther’s Hope Home! Let me introduce you to a sweet young girl Princess Kollie. Princess was having pain in her eyes and we were asked if we could take her to an eye clinic. Both her parents are blind. They were so afraid she would also go blind. […]

Happy Easter from Liberia
Our children had so much fun having an Easter Hunt with Daniel Coleman!! First he went to Eric & Kamah’s home in Caldwell with decorated eggs and candy!! Next he went to Ma Esther’s home in Mt. Barclay! Daniel grew up in an orphanage. He has so much compassion and love for the children in […]

Merry Christmas!
“Merry Christmas from OUR HOME TO YOURS!!!” Our Children and Hope Home Parents want to wish you and your families a Blessed Christmas!! “May the love, joy and peace of Christ fill your hearts and homes this Christmas!” “MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE” from the children at Eric and Kamah’s. They called me this morning to say […]
Mercy Ministry

Spreading Christmas Cheer!
Provision of Hope believes in spreading some Christmas Cheer to the many who need food! I love the words of Jesus ” I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and […]

Funds Needed for Huge Hospital Bill
On July 4th Monkonjay was boiling hot water when her cell phone fell into the pot! Without thinking she reached into the boiling water to retrieve her phone!! Her hand was severely burned along with her face. They quickly rushed her to the ELWA hospital where she was admitted. We bought 3 units of blood […]

Help for the Blind
Thank God we were able to buy canes for the blind!! Can you imagine being blind without a white cane to guide you? Like their leader Joseph Sackie said ” If you have the cane you can move independently” Thank you Daniel Coleman and Mercy Team for reaching out to the blind community. These are […]

Empowering Single Mothers
We always have a heart for the children of single mothers. Often we will provide emergency food, medical treatment, rent or school fees. Rather than providing continual hand outs, we like to empower them to help themselves. This week we were able to provide a brand new sewing machine for Fatu Getty!! Fatu was left […]

Refugees Pleading to Go Home
Provision of Hope continues to help refugees in the Buduburam Refugee Camp. They are asking for assistance to go back to Liberia. Our next group of refugees we will be assisting to go back home is Ruth, along with her daughter and sister Cecelia who has a small baby. Cecelia has been in this camp […]
Micro Loans

Refugee mother and son find Hope!
PRECIOUS FREEMAN and her 10 yr. old son Maxwell, waited patiently, as we met with countless people from the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana. Everyone had their desperate story. Finally Precious ventured to ask, “when will it be my turn to receive prayer”? I answered, “When everyone else is gone, come to my room” […]

Single Mothers Empowerment Program
As a REFUGEE on the BUDUBURAM REFUGEE CAMP, life is very hard. War has adverse effects on everyone, but the people who suffer most are the women and children. We can CHOOSE one or two options. We can give handouts for food, housing and medicine or we can give them micro loans to enable […]

MICRO LOANS help in rebuilding Liberia
Take a minute to read this FANTASTIC story!! JANJAY DYEGA a 29 yr. old young refugee was someone I met in the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana, in 2008. He was having pain, from a hernia, and needed surgery immediately. Provision of Hope provided the funds for that, and helped him to a nursing school in […]
Training Leaders

Community Tidiness Care
COMMUNITY TIDINESS CARE is a new program that Daniel Coleman initiated. This is a group of volunteer workers who go from community to community collecting garbage. Look at these photos! What a difference they are making to the streets of Lower New Matadi and other communities in Monrovia. […]

GRADUATION BRINGS MAJOR CHANGES
IT’S GRADUATION TIME for eleven of our Gr. 12 students in Liberia. Graduation brings about a major change and transition for these students. For sure this will be a challenge for each of them! They are used to having all their needs met on our program, now they are stepping out into independent living, where […]

Orphan Child Now Studies Criminal Law At University
Provision Of Hope is RAISING LEADERS OF INTEGRITY in Liberia! We first met DANIEL COLEMAN in 2003, living in an orphan village, just at the end of Liberia’s 14 years of civil war. He was left an orphan after the passing of both his mother and father, and the unknown whereabouts of his three siblings. To […]

RAISING NATION BUILDERS in Liberia, West Africa
MY FATHER’S HOUSE is always buzzing with activities! We keep our boys very busy. Everyone is expected to do their very best in school. We monitor their grades closely and provide tutoring where necessary. Presently we have 38 highschool students and 20 college students. We have two group homes and several neighbouring apartments and rooms. Without a […]

Carpentry Award goes to Exodus Smith
Exodus Smith receives THE CARPENTRY AWARD at My Father’s House Award Night. Exodus lives in Apt. 2 with Joshua Keamue, Moses Taweh and Saye Gea. He is in Grade 11 at the Calvary Baptist School. Whenever anything needs fixing we call on Exodus and his team of Carpenters. Ruben Gea and Paul Barchue are also […]
Widows Outreach

OPERATION MAT TO MATTRESS is still going strong!
Stop for just one minute. Imagine you are Ma Susan Doe. You never had a “real”bed in all your life. All you have is a thin mat on the floor. It’s very old and smells like mildew from all the humidity. You have a torn blanket, that’s it! At night it is common for a […]

New Widow Struggles to Feed her Family
Christiana Young lost her husband Othello unexpectedly 5 months ago. Two weeks ago she was in a bad car accident on her way to Buchanan where Grandma is from. Thank God she survived the crash, but she has been bed ridden in pain since the accident. Christiana went to the hospital but because of the […]

Sudden death of father leaves young family in mourning
What a sad day for Christiana Young and her 5 children. How will they manage without their dad, Othello? I am asking everyone who reads this to say a prayer for this family. This coming Saturday is the funeral. First, of course they need to raise the money. Christiana cannot stop crying. Othello, her husband […]

A MIRACLE CHRISTMAS
JOY TO THE WORLD has certainly become a reality for Mamie Gibson as she enjoyed Christmas with her precious children. For years she had no idea if her children survived the war. In January 2010 Sumo, her oldest son found her whereabouts! Mamie was overwhelmed to discover that ALL her children were alive and doing well. This […]

Widows are Shopping for Glasses
HOW EXCITING FOR OUR WIDOWS to be able to SEE with clearer vision. They are “so” happy! First they had their eyes tested to see which prescription they needed …. then for the shopping!!! These glasses were all donated by a group of friends in Texas. Thank you Elaine Caudle. […]