Aletheia Ministry and Grace Center Bible Church

reviewing drawings with contractor, Sahr Allieu

a lot of rock that needed moving

Construction is just getting underway for the new church and discipleship training center for Aletheia Ministry and Grace Center Bible Church. Years ago, a former Youth for Christ missionary, Michael Turay, started a new ministry called Aletheia (absolute truth), with a focus on teaching scriptures accurately, and reaching out to many within his city and country (Freetown, and Sierra Leone) with the simple and truthful gospel of Christ.  In their early days, he and his young protoge' Howard identified the Regent District of Freetown as an area with very few churches. After going door to door and sharing the gospel, they started Grace Center Bible Church within this region. The Aletheia team still proclaims the gospel invarious parts of town (hospitals, buses, street corner, and home Bible studies) while Grace Center provides a church for Christians in the Regent district to learn and grow in God's Word.  After years of renting the Regent community center for church, and renting a local catholic training center for discipleship training of pastors from various Sierra Leone towns and villages; they have started building their own facility on a very challenging, rocky, hard to access hillside property.

moving heavy rocks and boulders

My middle son, Josiah, a new friend and recent architect grad, Matthew Moeckel, and I joined with the Aletheia team and Grace Center Church members to help prepare the land for construction of the first floor of this three story building. After a week of hard work, the land is ready for foundation work. The contractor and I had very productive meetings going over the drawings to assure that this fairly complicated building is started on a good footing (figuratively and literally). Please keep this ministry and church in your prayers; they proclaim a truthful gospel message in a land with a heavy Muslim population, and heretical Christian teaching.

the young helped with the smaller rocks

FYI, Aletheia was recently engaged by the government of Sierra Leone to teach the Christian military chaplains; the first time they have ever engaged a local pastor and team.

the work crew