David Strope (right) receives a warm greeting at the conference in Liberia by one of the host pastors, Aaron.
Regular Baptist International is forging new and stronger relationships with ministries in Liberia.
In February, David Strope, interim national representative of the GARBC, traveled with a team to Monrovia, Liberia. Joining him were James Kester, pastor of Sahuaro Baptist Church, Tucson, Arizona, and member of the GARBC Council of 18; Josh Robinson, pastor of Altoona (Iowa) Regular Baptist Church; and Bill and Kathy Brittain, missionaries with ABWE.
The focus of their trip was a pastors’ seminar and Bible conference hosted by Liberian pastors—including Philemon Gwelikporlusohn, president of the African Fundamental Baptist Mission and pastor of Highland Hills Baptist Church in Monrovia, and James Togba, pastor of Maranatha Baptist Church in Monrovia.
But first the team spent three days, February 12–14, up-country in Gbarnga and its villages. The team explored an open-air market (a labyrinth of stalls in the stifling heat, David says), stopped to see an early mission station that Baptist Mid-Missions constructed in that region, and visited local churches and their pastors (“what a joy,” David says).
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