MORAVIANS IN MISSION
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ur Board of World Mission Director of Mission Outreach, Bishop Sam Gray, recently visited the mission area of Sierra Leone on Africa’s west coast to help with the planning and coordination of a National Conference of the Moravian Congregations which will be convening this year. This conference will help to further organize the work in that country with an eye towards sustainability and move them towards provincial status within the Moravian Church structure. Brother Sam reports that there is a lot of amazing work already happening there and the potential for the future is bright. Among the noteworthy accomplishments in Sierra Leone was the Southern Province (which provides partnership and oversight with this Mission Area) approving Sister Safiatu Braima as a Provincial Acolyte, which allows her to administer the sacraments of Holy Communion and bap-
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This month’s highlight
Sierra Leone
tism in the mission area. This was important since their only ordained pastor, her husband Mohammed Braima, passed away in November of 2018. He was the driving force in moving the Sierra Leone mission effort forward and Sister Safie now seeks to continue the important work that she and her husband had begun. A significant ministry in Sierra Leone is the Moravian Secondary School in Ngehun, supported with prayer, time, talent and treasure by the Sierra Leone Mission Committee of Little Church on the Lane Moravian Congregation in Charlotte, N.C. Brother Sam shares the following from his report concerning this growing school: “I was surprised to discover that, because of the high percentage of superior scores by Moravian Secondary School students on the national tests, some students from other schools (who did not pass the test)
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