Travel Woes

Posted on February 5, 2012 by vicki
James reports that on his way back to Freetown to pick up his family, he encountered yet another road accident.  With the frequency that he must make these trips back and forth to pick up supplies, it is becoming more and more imperative that NHA purchase its own vehicle.  The reliability and safety of renting cars is very risky at best.  

The vehicle in front of James on the road to Freetown, loses control and flips into the weeds.

Like many things in Sierra Leone, renting a car in that country is a much different process than in the United States.  On most occasions after you pay a hefty rental fee, the owner of the car insist that you use his driver as well.  

James rushes to assist those in the vehicle

Unless you know who you are renting from very well, you are at the mercy of the driver as to his driving skills or the safety conditions of the car.  


Finding a skilled, safe driver in Sierra Leone is a rare find. Finding a car that won’t break down several times on your journey is just as rare.  

This past week, when James recovered enough from his malaria and typhoid, he was able to find a decent car to bring the family home.  With such precious cargo aboard, 

Roo peeks at his tiny sister as she nurses during the ride home to Kabala.  No laws in Sierra Leone
 for seatbelts or child restraining seats.  In fact very few cars have seatbelts.

we were delighted that they made it back to the Compound in Kabala without any mishaps. 

The peaceful NHA Compound awaits the arrival of the family

 Little Roo did present the family with a worrisome matter when he spiked a fever and sores popped up on his throat as they made their way home.  

Though smiling, Roo looks rather thin and feverish. 

I am happy to report he is improving and we are hoping the peace and quiet of Kabala will help him to heal more rapidly.  

Once back home at the NHA Compound, Roo takes his medicine and vitamins.


Back home, Kadijah tidies up the grounds, sweeping away the litter that has accrued in front of the house.  


And Vicki takes in some much needed rest after the long drive. 


Several boxes of important medication are on their way across the Atlantic today.  This means that upon their arrival through Lungi,  James will yet again make the trip – relying on someone else’s vehicle and driver – to Freetown and back.  And when he returns to the NHA Compound, he will be making distribution of the medication to the area village clinics – again at the mercy of an unknown rented vehicle and driver. 

For the past several years, the NHA Compound has been our focus of fundraising.  Now that we have completed the compound we must turn our fundraising attention to some very important operational  matters that allow NHA to perform its duties both in Sierra Leone and in America.  We’ll be discussing the further needs of NHA in posts to come, however today we want to reiterate the need for a NHA vehicle in Sierra Leone.  

6 February 2010, James survived after being flipped several times in this car.
Two years ago, James was in a horrific accident. 

(http://www.nazarethhouseap.org/2010/02/17/6th-february-2010-accident-report/) 

 He survived only by God’s grace and mercy.  On that day,  a driver refused to slow down or listen to James’ urgent pleas to drive safely.  The taxi was filled with people, including a small baby which James held in his arms as the car flipped – over and over. The car stopped just inches away from rolling over a high cliff.


 It was a serious warning for NHA, a warning that we must not rely on others many with puffed up attitudes, that have displayed time after time reckless behavior in poorly maintained vehicles. We must make supply trips to and from Freetown, our work demands it.  However, paying good money to rent vehicles with drivers that put our staff in jeopardy is not prudent.  James has informed us that there are good used certified cars out there beginning at $10,000.  Anything older or less priced has more than likely been poorly maintained and driven very hard.  He knows many good mechanics in Kabala that will help to maintain and service the vehicle.  Having our own car won’t keep us out the way of those crazy drivers as they travel the roads, but it will give us more control and ability to practice safety.
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The Jonah Fast

Posted on February 1, 2012 by vicki
One of the practices at St. Simeon Skete is to observe the three day, Jonah Fast beginning at 12:01 AM EST on Monday, February 6th and lasting until after Vespers on Wednesday, February 8th.
Icon housed at St. Simeon Skete



The Jonah Fast, commemorates the three days that Prophet Jonah spent in the belly of the beast -the whale. It also commemorates the repentance of the people of Nineveh and is sometimes called the “Nineveh Fast”. It begins the Monday after Septuagesima – which is two weeks before Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent.
While the normal service schedule will be adhered to at St. Simeon Skete, the fast will be observed by refraining from food (and drink if they wish) from midnight until Vespers (or sunset) during these three days. If, for health reasons you are unable to do without all food during the day, we encourage you to at least refrain from something i.e. meat, fish, and dairy products during the fasting period. At the skete, fasting is considered abstaining from an otherwise normal activity for the purpose of spiritual pursuit.  Usually people abstain from food, but may also abstain from other activities – in example – refraining from the media i.e. news, etc.



This is a special fast at St. Simeon Skete because life at the skete embodies the experience of being in the belly of the beast where one must live in the “darkness” of faith.  – where one seeks answers; but is turned back to live with the questions that make the answers possible; where every good answer simply makes the question vibrate all the more.  Just as supply cannot be separated from its source; the answer cannot be separated from its question – nor the question from the answer.


Whether you participate in the fast or not, now is a good time to prepare yourself for the upcoming Lent.  The days peel off quickly and without preparation your Lent can easily slip by with no gains within.  A good choice of preparation is to read the Book of Jonah as a prelude of the forty days of Lent.  It is a beautiful story of repentance and fasting.


King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Matthew 12:41 The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now one greater than Jonah is here.
Jeremiah 36:9 In the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a time of fasting before the LORD was proclaimed for all the people in Jerusalem and those who had come from the towns of Judah.
Daniel 9:3 So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.
Joel 1:14 Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.
Jonah 3:7 Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let any man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.

 

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The Jonah Fast

Posted on January 31, 2012 by vicki

One of the practices at St. Simeon Skete is to observe the three day, Jonah Fast beginning at 12:01 AM EST on Monday, February 6th and lasting until after Vespers on Wednesday, February 8th.  
Icon housed at St. Simeon Skete



The Jonah Fast, commemorates the three days that Prophet Jonah spent in the belly of the beast -the whale. It also commemorates the repentance of the people of Nineveh and is sometimes called the “Nineveh Fast”. It begins the Monday after Septuagesima – which is two weeks before Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. 
While the normal service schedule will be adhered to at the St. Simeon Skete, the faithful will observe the fast by refraining from food (and drink if they wish) from midnight until Vespers (or sunset) during these three days. If, for health reasons you are unable to do without all food during the day, we encourage you to at least refrain from something i.e. meat, fish, and dairy products during the fasting period. At the skete, fasting is considered abstaining from an otherwise normal activity for the purpose of spiritual pursuit.  Usually people abstain from food, but may also abstain from other activities – in example – refraining from the media i.e. news, etc.  



This is a special fast at St. Simeon Skete because life at the skete embodies the experience of being in the belly of the beast where one must live in the “darkness” of faith.  – where one seeks answers; but is turned back to live with the questions that make the answers possible; where every good answer simply makes the question vibrate all the more.  Just as supply cannot be separated from its source; the answer cannot be separated from its question – nor the question from the answer. 


Whether you participate in the fast or not, now is a good time to prepare yourself for the upcoming Lent.  The days peel off quickly and without preparation your Lent can easily slip by with no gains within.  A good choice of preparation is to read the Book of Jonah as a prelude of the forty days of Lent.  It is a beautiful story of repentance and fasting.  


King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Matthew 12:41 The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now one greater than Jonah is here.
Jeremiah 36:9 In the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a time of fasting before the LORD was proclaimed for all the people in Jerusalem and those who had come from the towns of Judah.
Daniel 9:3 So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.
Joel 1:14 Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.
Jonah 3:7 Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let any man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.

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May those little feet grow to be the best they can be!

Posted on January 31, 2012 by vicki
Tomorrow Baby Vicki will be three weeks old and to mark that date she will be making her first trip from Freetown to Kabala.  Due to James malaria/typhoid illness (he has now recovered), the family had to remain in Freetown for a extended period.  But now they are on their way to introduce little Vicki to her home in Kabala at the NHA Compound.  There she will also meet her extended family – grandparents, cousins and all.



The Mansaray family is doing well – James is tired and weak, but recovering.  Kadijah is healing; Vicki is thriving and so is Roo!  The vitamins seemed to have replenished the iron in his system and we are hoping that it was a diet deficiency and nothing more serious. Lucy is healthy and continuing her studies in Freetown.


James and I have had a discussion, recently, over little Vicki’s feet.  He told me that they were very tiny.  I told him “no worries, I’ve made it through all my life with little feet, she will be able to stand on them”  I asked him to send me pictures.   As you can see her feet look perfectly proportionate.



✝


“By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green.


The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.” – Thomas Merton

“Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.” –Thomas Merton


“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear, the sighs, and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.” –Saint Augustine



Nazareth House Apostolate

www.nazarethhouseap.org

Its all about love….


 

 

 

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Posted on January 30, 2012 by vicki
Tomorrow Baby Vicki will be three weeks old and to mark that date she will be making her first trip from Freetown to Kabala.  Due to James malaria/typhoid illness (he has now recovered), the family had to remain in Freetown for a extended period.  But now they are on their way to introduce little Vicki to her home in Kabala at the NHA Compound.  There she will also meet her extended family – grandparents, cousins and all.  



The Mansaray family is doing well – James is tired and weak, but recovering.  Kadijah is healing; Vicki is thriving and so is Roo!  The vitamins seemed to have replenished the iron in his system and we are hoping that it was a diet deficiency and nothing more serious. Lucy is healthy and continuing her studies in Freetown. 


James and I have had a discussion, recently, over little Vicki’s feet.  He told me that they were very tiny.  I told him “no worries, I’ve made it through all my life with little feet, she will be able to stand on them”  I asked him to send me pictures.   As you can see her feet look perfectly proportionate.  



✝


“By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. 


The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.” – Thomas Merton

“Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.” –Thomas Merton


“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear, the sighs, and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.” –Saint Augustine



Nazareth House Apostolate

www.nazarethhouseap.org

Its all about love….


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The path

Posted on January 25, 2012 by vicki
As usual, Nazareth House Apostolate 
During a rainstorm, we noticed the letters N H for Nazareth House spelled out in the leaves of the trees at St. Simeon Skete
packs a whole lot of action into a years time; 
Humanitarian medical supplies delivered to a clinic in Sierra Leone from NHA
2011 was no exception.  
James mails packages to Sierra Leone from Taylorsville, KY 
2012 is panning out to follow suit. 
James receives the packages in Sierra Leone that he mailed in Taylorsville. 
January is not yet over and NHA has welcomed this New Year with President Koroma in Kabala, said goodbye to our dear friend, Thomas Landess, welcomed baby Vicki,  
Young boy at one the newest villages that NHA will give aid.
brought aid to new villages near Kabala, reopened the NHA School after the holidays and

St. Simeon Skete,  Meeting of the Lord Chapel
 continued the daily life of ongoing prayer at St. Simeon Skete.  
James from Sierra Leone visits California
A year ago at this time, James was returning to Sierra Leone after his visit to America.  
James during his visit to St. Simeon Skete. 
While in America (his first trip outside of Africa), 
James was able to 
meet in person many of 

those who have been with him through the struggles of rebuilding life after such a terrible war.  His heart had already been touched by them, now he was able to meet and physically touch them. 

 He was also provided a complete health screen by NHA. 
Now today, a year later, he is back in Sierra Leone, struggling with a rather stubborn case of Malaria combined with an even more stubborn case of Typhoid.  
He has just returned from opening a new village in need of NHA’s assistance, he has a new two week old daughter 

and much more responsibilities added to his charge.  
children in the newest village under NHA care

As they say in Sierra Leone “it no easy”; however, through the love, care and compassion of our supporters, NHA will do its best to lessen the load as best we can, not just for James but for all of those we serve. 



I remember lamenting at  the first of the year in 2011 “so much to do!”  But now a year later, as I review the year, I think “Oh wow! so much accomplished!”  

We kicked 2011 off in Chico, California attending the Pray Love Walk-a-thon sponsored by St Augustine’s Anglican Church.  This was the catalyst for the campaign to retire the debt of building the NHA Compound, our center of operations in Kabala.  We did, indeed, by the year end, retire the debt in 2011, which was one of our biggest expenses for the whole year.  The construction was completed and our staff, James and Kadijah, moved in.  





The move from Freetown all the way to Kabala was a difficult chore, one with its own expense, however, that too was accomplished through the assistance of NHA. 


The NHA School (which is right across the street from the new NHA Compound) needed painting and the rooms needed to be divided in order to accommodate the need for more classrooms.   

The Nazareth House Apostolate Teachers and Principal (January 2012)

Thanks to the support and generosity of all of you, this was accomplished before the start of the 2011/2012 School Year.  
Another successful school year is well underway at the NHA School and we are very proud of our teachers and our students and the tremendous discipline of both.

James daughter, Lucy, with plans to be (a much needed) doctor, entered a private boarding school in Freetown where her she can excel in studies and preparation for medical school.
Her tuition has been paid for this year. 


Every month (sometimes late but never missed) NHA was able to maintain the support of humanitarian aid to the families we regularly support in Sierra Leone plus random emergency needs that are presented to us.  The teachers received their salaries ($100 per teacher per month) and the school continues to be maintained and in good operation.   


Our monthly expenditure to provide for our staff, the school, the teachers, and care of the people in need – in Kabala, Freetown and area villages is $2,200 a month.   We depend on our regular monthly donors to maintain this commitment. 

__________________________________







Fire destroys the One Hut Village housing
NHA provided a new home for the One Hut Village 

The newly constructed home for the One Hut Family.   It has rooms with walls and everything

after a series of disasters destroyed their thatched hut not once but thrice.  

________________________________





Clinics have been stocked and restocked with medications from NHA. 


 Many children were treated


 for internal parasites (worms).   We even cared for a snake bite…      Lives are being saved.


Illnesses, labor and delivery and other medical situations that required hospitalization were paid for by NHA for several in need, including Kadijah’s expenses for delivery of Vicki 



and Roo’s anemia diagnosis.  (Remember James’ shingles, how painful that was)



So much accomplished.  A review through the blog posts only hints at all that we’ve done together.  Working together as a family, helping each other, caring for each other.  Lives are being changed for the better, bellies fed, educational opportunities granted, love exchanged.   


And all the while the ongoing prayer and stability rising from the work of St. Simeon Skete 


keeps it all in prospective and generates the discipline to carry it all out.  2011 was a remarkable year.   

And with the same perseverance, Nazareth House Apostolate in 2012 continues on the same path.   Come join us….

its all about love…


Nazareth House Apostolate
185 Captains Cove Drive
Taylorsville, KY 40071
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The path

Posted on January 25, 2012 by vicki
As usual, Nazareth House Apostolate 
During a rainstorm, we noticed the letters N H for Nazareth House spelled out in the leaves of the trees at St. Simeon Skete
packs a whole lot of action into a years time; 
Humanitarian medical supplies delivered to a clinic in Sierra Leone from NHA
2011 was no exception.  
James mails packages to Sierra Leone from Taylorsville, KY 
2012 is panning out to follow suit. 
James receives the packages in Sierra Leone that he mailed in Taylorsville. 
January is not yet over and NHA has welcomed this New Year with President Koroma in Kabala, said goodbye to our dear friend, Thomas Landess, welcomed baby Vicki,  
Young boy at one the newest villages that NHA will give aid.
brought aid to new villages near Kabala, reopened the NHA School after the holidays and

St. Simeon Skete,  Meeting of the Lord Chapel
 continued the daily life of ongoing prayer at St. Simeon Skete.  
James from Sierra Leone visits California
A year ago at this time, James was returning to Sierra Leone after his visit to America.  
James during his visit to St. Simeon Skete. 
While in America (his first trip outside of Africa), 
James was able to 
meet in person many of 

those who have been with him through the struggles of rebuilding life after such a terrible war.  His heart had already been touched by them, now he was able to meet and physically touch them. 

 He was also provided a complete health screen by NHA. 
Now today, a year later, he is back in Sierra Leone, struggling with a rather stubborn case of Malaria combined with an even more stubborn case of Typhoid.  
He has just returned from opening a new village in need of NHA’s assistance, he has a new two week old daughter 

and much more responsibilities added to his charge.  
children in the newest village under NHA care

As they say in Sierra Leone “it no easy”; however, through the love, care and compassion of our supporters, NHA will do its best to lessen the load as best we can, not just for James but for all of those we serve. 



I remember lamenting at  the first of the year in 2011 “so much to do!”  But now a year later, as I review the year, I think “Oh wow! so much accomplished!”  

We kicked 2011 off in Chico, California attending the Pray Love Walk-a-thon sponsored by St Augustine’s Anglican Church.  This was the catalyst for the campaign to retire the debt of building the NHA Compound, our center of operations in Kabala.  We did, indeed, by the year end, retire the debt in 2011, which was one of our biggest expenses for the whole year.  The construction was completed and our staff, James and Kadijah, moved in.  





The move from Freetown all the way to Kabala was a difficult chore, one with its own expense, however, that too was accomplished through the assistance of NHA. 


The NHA School (which is right across the street from the new NHA Compound) needed painting and the rooms needed to be divided in order to accommodate the need for more classrooms.   

The Nazareth House Apostolate Teachers and Principal (January 2012)

Thanks to the support and generosity of all of you, this was accomplished before the start of the 2011/2012 School Year.  
Another successful school year is well underway at the NHA School and we are very proud of our teachers and our students and the tremendous discipline of both.

James daughter, Lucy, with plans to be (a much needed) doctor, entered a private boarding school in Freetown where her she can excel in studies and preparation for medical school.
Her tuition has been paid for this year. 


Every month (sometimes late but never missed) NHA was able to maintain the support of humanitarian aid to the families we regularly support in Sierra Leone plus random emergency needs that are presented to us.  The teachers received their salaries ($100 per teacher per month) and the school continues to be maintained and in good operation.   


Our monthly expenditure to provide for our staff, the school, the teachers, and care of the people in need – in Kabala, Freetown and area villages is $2,200 a month.   We depend on our regular monthly donors to maintain this commitment. 

__________________________________







Fire destroys the One Hut Village housing
NHA provided a new home for the One Hut Village 

The newly constructed home for the One Hut Family.   It has rooms with walls and everything

after a series of disasters destroyed their thatched hut not once but thrice.  

________________________________





Clinics have been stocked and restocked with medications from NHA. 


 Many children were treated


 for internal parasites (worms).   We even cared for a snake bite…      Lives are being saved.


Illnesses, labor and delivery and other medical situations that required hospitalization were paid for by NHA for several in need, including Kadijah’s expenses for delivery of Vicki 



and Roo’s anemia diagnosis.  (Remember James’ shingles, how painful that was)



So much accomplished.  A review through the blog posts only hints at all that we’ve done together.  Working together as a family, helping each other, caring for each other.  Lives are being changed for the better, bellies fed, educational opportunities granted, love exchanged.   


And all the while the ongoing prayer and stability rising from the work of St. Simeon Skete 


keeps it all in prospective and generates the discipline to carry it all out.  2011 was a remarkable year.   

And with the same perseverance, Nazareth House Apostolate in 2012 continues on the same path.   Come join us….

its all about love…


Nazareth House Apostolate
185 Captains Cove Drive
Taylorsville, KY 40071
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Friday Smiles

Posted on January 13, 2012 by vicki
(All photos on this post and on this blog are the property of the photographers and Nazareth House Apostolate – All rights reserved.  They cannot be used for any purpose without written permission from Nazareth House)

 

 

It is all smiles for the Mansaray Family.

Papa James is bursting with joy that his youngest daughter has arrived
and is healthy
and that is beloved wife survived the birth
in a country where maternal mortality during delivery is very high,
Having malaria, enduring a long drive from Kabala to Freetown, it is amazing how well Kadijah is doing!  Thank God.

Lucy is back at boarding school, unable to leave the school to be with her family, yet,  delighted that her baby sister and mom are doing well.  Lucy is all the more determined to study harder.   She knows how much we need doctors in Kabala.

….and Roo…

Roo wasn’t sure what to think about all this and was being very quiet…

but now that he met his little sister
well..look at those eyes… they say it all
Baby Vicki has definitely met with his approval
At this post, James is working his way back to Kabala,
he has work to do and we have villages to care for.
In our line of work, there is no “family leave”.
The Needs don’t stop, the work is ongoing.
People like this little “lucky charm” toddler are depending on us.
They depend on you and I to lend them the hand.  If you haven’t already committed to a monthly donation, please consider doing so today.
Through your generosity, NHA has given help to many, but the light of each new day uncovers more that need us.
We can’t fulfill every need, but with your help, we can help many – bit by bit, person by person AND put a smile on their face.
After checking on the latest new villages, James will return this weekend to pick up his family once Kadijah and Vicki are released from the hospital.

Please pray for him as he travels the roads of Sierra Leone, road travel is not safe.  Drivers are wild and the roads bad.
Its all about love….
Nazareth House Apostolate (NHA)
185 Captains Cove Drive
Taylorsville, KY 40071


Note: For those of you in America who have noticed the earrings already in Vicki’s ears.  This is Africa, its a different culture and ears are pierced at a much earlier age than in USA.  This has been part of their culture from the beginning.
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Friday Smiles

Posted on January 13, 2012 by vicki
It is all smiles for the Mansaray Family.  
Papa James is bursting with joy that his youngest daughter has arrived
and is healthy
and that is beloved wife survived the birth 
in a country where maternal mortality during delivery is very high, 
Having malaria, enduring a long drive from Kabala to Freetown, it is amazing how well Kadijah is doing!  Thank God.

Lucy is back at boarding school, unable to leave the school to be with her family, yet,  delighted that her baby sister and mom are doing well.  Lucy is all the more determined to study harder.   She knows how much we need doctors in Kabala. 

….and Roo…

Roo wasn’t sure what to think about all this and was being very quiet…

but now that he met his little sister
well..look at those eyes… they say it all
Baby Vicki has definitely met with his approval
At this post, James is working his way back to Kabala,
he has work to do and we have villages to care for.  
In our line of work, there is no “family leave”.  
The Needs don’t stop, the work is ongoing.  
People like this little “lucky charm” toddler are depending on us.  
They depend on you and I to lend them the hand.  If you haven’t already committed to a monthly donation, please consider doing so today.  
 Through your generosity, NHA has given help to many, but the light of each new day uncovers more that need us.  
We can’t fulfill every need, but with your help, we can help many – bit by bit, person by person AND put a smile on their face.  
After checking on the latest new villages, James will return this weekend to pick up his family once Kadijah and Vicki are released from the hospital.  

Please pray for him as he travels the roads of Sierra Leone, road travel is not safe.  Drivers are wild and the roads bad.  
Its all about love….
Nazareth House Apostolate (NHA)
185 Captains Cove Drive
Taylorsville, KY 40071


Note: For those of you in America who have noticed the earrings already in Vicki’s ears.  This is Africa, its a different culture and ears are pierced at a much earlier age than in USA.  This has been part of their culture from the beginning. 
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NHA presents: VICKI ANN MANSARAY

Posted on January 11, 2012 by vicki
Nazareth House Apostolate,  St. Simeon Skete,
Fr. Seraphim and Vicki Hicks

and proud parents,
James and Kadijah Mansaray,
together with

siblings – Lucy and Roo
announce
the arrival

of

Little Miss VICKI ANN MANSARAY
of
Kabala, Sierra Leone
Glory be to God!

Your prayers have been very reassuring
your love has showered us all
Thank you all!
James message on Facebook reads:
“Counting on what you’ve done for me, my family and Sierra Leone as a whole i name this newly born rose as Vicki Ann aka SPECIAL to show my love and appreciation for you Mama Vicki. You are one in a million, keep up the good work with Nazareth House Apostolate.. we all in salone loves you.”


I can assure you that Grandmama Vicki is quite ecstatic over this arrival PLUS  it was a year ago on this day that her last granddaughter was born.

 

Dear “Special” we all wish you the best, know that you are never alone – you are always bathed in love.



God bless you little one!



And Kadijah, Oh My Gosh, traveling from Freetown to Kabala, arriving and delivering all in a span of less than a days time……..   “You are one strong mama!”



We are so proud of you!  Godspeed, heal fast.



Thanks to all of you who gave special attention to this pregnancy, especially the ACW of St Augustine in Chico who paid the hospitalization, Esther de Laix – for the supplies for Kadijah (see Esther, Little Vicki is wrapped in Roger’s blanket gift) and the many others who generously provided for this birth to be a safe and healthy one.




Nazareth House Apostolate
185 Captains Cove Drive
Taylorsville, KY 40071


 

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