Liberation Center Liberia

“The Fire of God is Burning the Addiction Out of Liberia One Soul at a Time in Jesus Name”

Jeremiah 33:6 ~ I will heal them

Sons & Daughters of Thunder Ministries has visited, ministered in and provided support to the people living in the the ghettos of Caldwell, Logan Town, Gblagba, West Point, Pennho Building on Center Street, Slipway Abule, Sodoetown, Parker Paint, Fuel Oil and Water and at the Palm Grove Cemetery on Center Street in Monrovia and preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ and ministered to the homeless and drug addicted men and women who have made these ghettos and the cemetery and its tombs their home. “Zogo” is a derogatory, locally coined word given to the criminals and drug users, who roam the streets of Monrovia and other areas in Liberia, doing odd jobs such as car loading and washing, while snatching mobile phones and other valuables from citizens. Liberia’s “Zogos” are Liberia’s forgotten ones: homeless, criminal and addicted to drugs. They are part of the disadvantaged youth and former child soldiers who are considered to be the lowest of the lows in society and deemed the throw away people who will never change and will always be criminals and drug addicts just like Evangelist Michael Bowen used to be in the U.S.A.

In Monrovia, the capital city, drug addicted men, women and young people have taken over the Palm Grove Cemetery and the Center Street Ghetto at its edge. There are hundreds of tombs in this cemetery, almost 13 acres of them. Fourteen years of death-by-machete civil war left no shortage of bodies to bury in Liberia. Some of the older drug addicts are the former child soldiers and victims of abuse from this bloody and brutal war, who became addicted to drugs and had nowhere to go when the war was over. The warlords kidnapped the young boys and often killed their family members in front of them before making them go off to the war. In order to get the frightened children to fight, the warlords gave them drugs to make them brave and they became addicted. They gave them Marijuana, Crack Cocaine, Black Tar Heroin and fed them a mixture of Alcohol, Cane Juice and Gunpowder that got them high and supposedly made them unafraid. The warlords even made the children cannibalize their victims. Once the disarmament came, the government took away the guns and machetes, but the addiction and trauma stayed. This brutal civil war seeded drug addiction in Liberia and now there is an entire population of people of all ages addicted to drugs and living in cemeteries and ghettos across the country in the most horrible conditions imaginable and they have been forgotten by the rest of society. There are babies being born into this environment that never have a chance at a decent life and the infant mortality rate is high. There are very few resources in Liberia to help them. These are the hurt, broken and addicted people of Liberia and they need our help. Praise the Lord! God has given us a mission to help the Drug Addicted, Poor, Homeless and Disadvantaged people of Liberia! We are here to show them that Jesus has not forgotten them and neither have we.

Sons and Daughters of Thunder Ministries has established a Liberian NGO not for profit organization called Liberation Center Liberia and have begun establishing homes and centers for this broken people. Together we will work to provide programs where the young men, women and the babies being born there, can come up out of the ghettos and tombs and into a home or center that will give them the opportunity to heal and the power and strength to finally be set free from addiction and the criminal activity that accompanies it.

Sons and Daughters of Thunder Liberation Center Liberia is a Non-Profit Organization in the process of establishing a series of deliverance, healing, rehabilitation, restoration, vocational training and discipleship programs, homes and centers that will equip the people who come there with the tools and skills necessary to live their new lives in Jesus Christ as His disciples and to become successful and productive citizens in Liberian society. We are currently raising money for this effort and have already completed construction of both Men’s and Women’s Homes which are currently operational and are in the process of planning the first ever of its kind juvenile boys home as part of a diversionary program for the disadvantaged male youth of Liberia.

As an organization, we understand the current meaning of the word Zogo, has a negative connotation. We also are sensitive to the movement in Liberia to replace the word Zogo with Disadnateged Youth. So you change the word and the people are still the same? Wouldn’t it be better to change the people associated with the word? At Liberation Center Liberia, we believe that God is turning that around. We believe God is taking the stigma out of the word and bringing honor to it by changing the people. Liberation Center Liberia, defines this word Zogo as meaning, someone of value. Someone who has a great future in the Kingdom of God as an Apostle, Pastor, Prophet, Teacher and Evangelist. Someone who is a future productive and successful, law-abiding citizen who contributes successfully to Liberian society. A Zogomay become a skilled worker, mechanic, farmer, business owner or even a lawyer or doctor. A Zogo to us, is a friend and a brother and sister, who we are helping overcome their battle with addiction in Jesus name.

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Thank you and God Bless!