What if?…What if you couldn’t read these words?…What if… five dollars seemed like a small fortune… What if…your baby girl had a deathly high fever…and you couldn’t do anything about it?…What if…instead of savoring that Latte in the morning…the brown liquid you swallowed every day was dirtywater?…What if…only fifteen out of every one-hundred people in your community… actually had a job?… What if you lived “in the land of the free”…but all these things were true too… What if?

While some of these questions still linger in Liberia today, they actually were extremely prescient and relevant to the Liberia of the mid-2000’s. But slowly the times are a changing. Liberia has begun to enter into an era where genuine hope reigns supreme.

In 2006, a Harvard-trained economist, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became the first female elected head of state in African history. This fellow follower of Christ helped to bring stability to Liberia and facilitated a peaceful transfer of power to a new president. Liberia has survived a devastating civil war, a crippling Ebola outbreak and is now on the path to reconstruction, to not just surviving but showing emerging signs of potentially thriving.

Out of the ashes, out of the chaos, out of the heartache, a masterpiece is beginning to form. Liberia Now desires to be part of the solution of seeing this country realize a more hopeful today. Liberia Now seeks to holistically address all the major channels of Liberian culture by linking the Body of Christ and the international community-at-large with the needs and opportunities that exist in Liberia today. We hope you will consider joining us in seeing these “what if” questions turned into oh, wow — living, breathing miracles of today.