Children’s Camps
Focus
The Children’s Camps in Sierra Leone provide a safe, nurturing environment where children can grow in faith, build friendships, and develop life skills. Through engaging activities, spiritual guidance, and community support, the camps aim to inspire hope, healing, and a strong sense of purpose in the lives of young participants.
Get Involved
Your support can help give a child the opportunity to experience a safe, fun, and faith-filled camp where they can grow, learn, and build lasting memories. Please consider making a donation to help send a child to camp today.
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Your Impact
Yambasu Agriculture Initiative empowers farmers
Yambasu Agriculture Initiative staff from 15 annual conferences sharpened their entrepreneurial skills during training at the Songhai Center, a sustainable farming research, teaching and production facility in West Africa.
United Methodist hospital in Nigeria expands
The Rev. Jolly T. Nyame, former governor of Taraba state and onetime director of connectional ministries for The United Methodist Church in Nigeria, said he was proud of the church’s work but also disappointed in the division within the denomination.
Program helps trauma survivors heal
Hicks, a United Methodist deacon and founder of Nashville-based Harper Hill Global, was on the cusp of offering training for Triumph Over Trauma, a seven-week psychoeducational program for people going through trauma, and she explained the training to the two leaders of St. Matthew’s United Methodist Church in Memphis.
United Methodists in Nigeria distribute 50 tricycles
A partnership between the United Methodist Southern Nigeria Conference and the Beautiful Gate Handicap Center recently improved the lives of people with mobility issues. Fifty tricycles were donated through the conference’s ministries with the disabled.
Big day for United Methodist school, guesthouse
Nearby, on the same day, the conference dedicated its first guesthouse, which will serve United Methodists arriving for mission work. The school bears the name of a late United Methodist missionary from Iowa who, from 2002-2008, spent every summer in Nigeria, teaching science, digging wells and installing solar projects.
Nigeria bishop convenes meeting to address violence
Bishop John Wesley Yohanna, leader of The United Methodist Church in Nigeria, organized a peace and reconciliation meeting on Aug. 17 following incidents of violence in the Karim Lamido area of Taraba state.
