Ghana VIM trip connects to orphanage
SILVER SPRING ? The Rev. Victor Sawyer led a Volunteers in Mission group to Ghana in August.
On the trip he visited an orphanage, to which the group donated supplies.
They met with Samuel Bangura, whose parents were tortured and shot to death, Sawyer said, during the civil war in Sierra Leone in 1997. The 21-year-old was captured and released and found a ship bound for Ghana. In Ghana he believed God was calling him to start an orphanage.
Bangura rented a building and began Jesus is King Orphanage in the village of Aboadze.
'Shortly after he organized the orphanage, a fisherman?s house exploded,' Sawyer said. He explained that fishermen keep gasoline in their homes to stave off a shortage when they go out to sea in their boats. The fire destroyed the house, which killed the husband and seriously injured the wife. She could no longer care for their 10 children.
Three of the children, ages 4, 5 and 7, became the first children in the orphanage. 'Today there are 12,' Sawyer said.
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