Eau Claire Couple Form New Ministry to Meet the Needs of People in Africa

EAU CLAIRE, Wis.
   In 2008, Mark and Peggy Halvorsen were just looking to adopt a little boy named Michael from Liberia.  Today, with the West African country having been closed to adoption since January, 2009, the Eau Claire, Wis. couple instead finds themselves partnering with Liberian Pastor, Peter Flomo, in running the exciting, expanding new ministry, Teamwork Africa (teamworkafrica.blogspot.com).  TA is dedicated to planting and resourcing churches to meet the vital spiritual and physical needs of their Liberian communities.

   While this nation of 3.8 million people boasted a thriving middle-class as recently as the mid-80s, a 14-year civil war that ended in 2003 left 350,000 people dead, and completely devastated the country’s infrastructure and economy. Nine years later the rebuilding continues.

   The capitol, Monrovia, is home to more than a million people, with the other almost three million people living in remote villages that comprise “the interior.”  Murder and mayhem marked the overwhelming majority of these villages during the war, leaving an untold number of orphans. Clean water, education and medical care are unavailable in most of these interior villages, and that’s where TA comes in.

   Partnering with The Last Well (thelastwell.org), whose mission “is to provide safe drinking water to the entire nation of Liberia and to present the message of Jesus Christ to those ...

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