Tonight marks our final evening together in West Africa before heading back home to the U.S. tomorrow morning. We began our incredible odyssey in Sierra Leone traveling to our Seven Hills Global Outreach schools, medical clinic, birthing center, and hiked into the bush...

Today is our first full day in Ghana after arriving last evening. We started off at 7:15 am for a 3 hour drive north to the village of Nitawuyto to take part in a village celebration for the clean water well we funded for them  in 2016. In January 2016, I brought anoth...

After a week in Sierra Leone, we are about to fly to Accra, Ghana this afternoon. The photos I’m posting today (see them all here) reflect our arrival back in Freetown, our last picture outside our hotel in Bo, and a series of remembrances from our time with our partne...

Today is our last day in Sierra Leone and we all leave with a sense of melancholy given the warmth of hospitality and genuine affection shown to us by everyone at our partner organization, Zion Ministries. Though this is one of the poorest countries on earth, the peopl...

Today was another day celebrating the determination of the Sierra Leone people; and in particular the children. We began the day visiting with the primary and secondary school children at our Bo School. This is a new school we dedication one year ago and already we hav...

Today was another memorable day here in Sierra Leone. We started the day by attending a traditional 3-hour Sunday worship service at Zion Church with our partner here in Sierra Leone. This was a new experience for several on our team, but in order to understand the Afr...

It was quite a remarkable day today walking nearly 10 miles through the bush from one village to another seeing women and children as well as the clean water wells and village toilets funded by Seven Hills Global Outreach. Our day started at 9:00 am with the temperatur...

Our Seven Hills Global Outreach team left Freetown bright and early this morning to our destination of Bo in south central Sierra Leone. Leaving Freetown we drove through an impoverished slum where tens of thousands live on $1 a day and during the rainy season their sh...

After 16 hours travel we have arrived safe and sound in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Tonight we will be staying in Freetown with a tour of one of the government hospitals in the capital tomorrow followed by a tour of the downtown outdoor markets.  In the afternoon we head t...

To friends, families, and followers of our January SHGO trip to Sierra Leone and Ghana: over the next eleven days, our SHGO team (Siwen Wang, Qixian Wang, Michael Weekes, Noel Alexander, Spencer Gale and Kellee Kosiorek) and I will be part of the ongoing work begun in...