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COURTESY OF SHERMAN HARRIS Sherman Harris, conference United Methodist Men president, Connie Smith, pastor of Easter UMC, and Dorothy Moore from Hopkins UMC laid a wreath at the Elmina Slave Castle in memory of African americans who were captured and placed on slave ships for the new world.

COLUMBIA - Five members of the Baltimore-Washington Conference have returned from a mission trip to Ghana and Sierra Leone.

Dorothy Moore, from Hopkins UMC, makes regular trips to Ghana to visit Asiakwa, a village where she has been deemed 'Queen Mother.' Traveling with her were Sherman Harris, the Rev. Connie Smith and Esther Reaves, as well as the Rev. Victor Sawyer who went on to visit Sierra Leone.

They dedicated the Richard Hicks School in Asiakwa and visited Mapongo Middle School in Accra, the capitol, a project supported by the conference Committee on Africa.

Harris began a project to provide sewing machines to a boys' school, and over the next five years will also help to provide training so that they can become economically independent.

Moore and others traveled 400 miles overland north to the Novrongo District, the poorest region of Ghana, where they fed children at an orphanage and provided them with food, shoes and other necessities.

Contributions for the orphanages in the Novrongo District in Ghana, and Bo in Sierra Leone, are always welcome. Send checks to Locust UMC, marked Africa Project.