Cindy's Sierra Leone Update

14, January, 2009
Greetings from Sierra Leone,
Danny and I are rejoicing today! Yesterday we finally got our new license plates and insurance for the truck. I guess they were out of some sticker we must attach to the plate so we will pick that up later. We celebrated in typical McCollor style, we headed straight to the ocean for a couple hours of cool, relaxing swimming. We had our three tireless helpers with us, P.M., Santos, and Amora. They are not much for swimming so they sat under the palm trees at the table and chairs drinking some cold Squeeze orange soda and waited for the chicken dinners we ordered to arrive.
This is the first time in my 51 years I have been swimming in the ocean. I have seen the Atlantic and the Pacific waded along the shore but the water has always been too cold to swim. Yesterday however the water was as warm as a bathtub full of water. I was surprised to taste the saltiness of it.
Today we are working on getting our lugs nuts loose on our truck and we must register at the American Embassy. We are hoping to go to our new home in Bo on Friday the 16th. Update on Thursday lug nuts are loose! Praise the Lord! Now we just need to find new ones to replace the stripped ones. NEW UPDATE: Fond New Nuts, after about a dozen stops, now we have 4 different style lug nuts on the pickup, VERRY COOL!
We have about 2 more pick up loads of things to bring up there and hopefully our moving days will be done for awhile.
B.K. is anxiously awaiting Danny’s arrival in BO to bring Jesus to him. He is sure there will be many others who will be interested in hearing about Jesus as well. BK is the Chief in the town we will be living in, Bo#2. We will be showing the Jesus films up there. We have a few different formats of the film. One has a “football” soccer theme. It starts out with testimonies from famous football players about how Jesus has changed their lives. One is spoken in Krio a very common language here and one is narrated by Mary Magdalene geared toward woman.
We will also be working with a local Pastor in the village of Gelehun. Pastor Phenow, pastor’s the church Rev. Dr. Shaka built next to the land “No Greater Love International” hopes to build the children’s home on. We are very excited to see how God will use us to help Pastor Phenow and his church. Before Dr. Shaka left for the States, we were able to take a trip up country with him and see Bo, Gelehun, and trek through the bush on the land God provided. It is very fertile land. I am sure once things get going we will be able to plant many things and grow them on it.
Danny and I have been using our time wisely waiting for the paper work to be done on the truck. He is continuing his studies through Global University to complete the courses he will need to become an ordained minister of the gospel. I have started working on what I will need to be a certified minister.

I want to thank all of you who have taken time to email us back. I can’t tell you how much it means to us to check our inbox and see a note from someone. I know we have only been gone 3 weeks now but it seems like months to us.
As we send out this letter we will be including a lot of people who might not be interested in what we are doing if that’s you, let us know and we will drop your name from our list.
Anyway God bless you all and please keep praying that God will open the doors to spread the good news of Jesus Christ’s Love in Sierra Leone.
Your Servants in Christ, Danny & Cindy McCollor