A view of the city from the mountain where ministry partner Believer Broadcasting Network's studio is located in Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone (MNN) ― Voters in Sierra Leone believe the post-civil war climate is improving, following local elections being held for the second time in over three decades.
The elections are an encouraging sign of freedom in a region that was synonymous with brutality, and HCJB Global's partners in Freetown are part of the rebuilding solution.
HCJB's International Healthcare Director, Sheila Leech, will soon travel to Sierra Leone to establish new medical ministries in conjunction with Radio Life Venture and Believers Broadcasting Network. The organization plans to work with drilling wells and improving latrines, as well launching a mobile medical clinic with Radio Life Venture.
"We realize that primary health care in a place like Sierra Leone is what we need to do, because most of the folks in the places where we work in Sierra Leone do not have access to clinics and hospitals," said Dee Walker, Associate Executive Director of HCJB Global.
Sierra Leone's government is not capable of meeting its people's "overwhelming" medical needs, Walker said, so it is working with other groups that are coming alongside to help. That's why HCJB Global began working with Radio Life Venture "to assess the need for the extension or integration of media with medical and leadership development," Walker said.
"This radio station can use the radio to proclaim the Gospel and tell folks, ‘We are coming to this village or this town with some nurses or doctors or dentists," he said. "And people are so excited because many of the people cannot afford these physical necessities."
The clinic fits into HCJB Global's mission to be not only the voice but also the hands of Jesus.
"It's one thing to proclaim the Gospel message to someone who's healthy, and it's another thing to proclaim it to someone who's in dire medical need," Walker said. "So we try to fuse the two together and integrate them in such a way that they see that we are not just a talking head, or a talking mouth, but we also put our hand behind what we say."
