A few facts about Liberia...

Liberia is in West Africa and it boarders Sierra Leone, Cote D’ Ivoire, and Guinea

Liberia is the size of Tennessee and has approximately 3.5 million people.

The Capital City of Monrovia is named after the 5th President of America, James Monroe

Liberia was founded and colonized by freed American slaves in 1847; thus the name Liberia = liberty!

More than 20 languages are spoken in Liberia

They have experienced civil war from 1989-2003, approximately 250,000 were killed

40% practice Christianity/or Christianity mixed with Animism

40% practice Animism/voodoo/witchcraft

20% practice Islam

1 out of 10 people have HIV

More people die from malaria than any other disease

God's Love in Action

Master's Design was birthed as a partnership with local believers to show God's love in action and to provide the resources they need to reach their people. We want to equip them to do what God has called them to do.

"The local body of Christ was not intended to be dependent on outside evangelism and outside government and outside money over the long haul. Paul made it clear that for the body to be whole, we need every joint and every part working together, which causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. When in the name of Christian missions we do for the indigenous believers what they can do for themselves, we undermine the very church that God has sent us to plant." Steve Saint (quote)

Children of Liberia

Photography courtesy of Mercy Ships
Esther Biney (photographer)