Educational costs for two Sierra Leonean medical students
We are helping to train two medical students with the plan that they will come to work at Mattru hospital upon completion of their schooling.
Mohamed Feika has just completed his second year at the College of Medicine and Health and Allied Services. Feika is from Mattru where his folks lived just accross from the hospital. His father is deceased and his mother was a faithful member of our Goba Town church. Through your help, we have paid his fees and allowances for the past two years.
David Massaquoi has just completed his first year at the same institution. He is also from Mattru and was recommended to us by Feika.
The fees and expenses for the new academic year are $2,103 per student. Can you help with all or a portion of these needs?
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Educational costs for Sierra Leonean theology students
You have the opportunity to help train ministers and workers for service in the Sierra Leone Conference. Following is a list of students seeking scholarship assistance and the amount needed. Paragraphs giving further information about each student can be found below the list.
Distant Learning Students at Bo
Rev. Emmanuel Farma - 4th year B.TH degree - $270
Rev. Ruben T. Assumana - 4th year B.TH. degree - $280
Rev. Peter B. Kainwo - 4th year B.TH. degree - $270
Rev. James S. Ganda - 4th year B.TH. degree - $270
Rev. Albert Swaray-3rd year B.TH.(Current year and arrears)$480
Pastor Miriam Massallay - 2nd year B.TH. - $270
Main Campus Resident Student
Rev. Josephine Siattie - 1st year Diploma in Theology - $780
Non-Resident Student
Mr. Samuel Pessima - B.A. Development 3rd year - $750
Freetown Extension Program
Pastor Josephine Bankole - 2nd year Diploma in Theo. - $610
Student Biographies:
Rev. Emmanuel Farma has been in the ministry for a long time. He holds a Diploma in Theology from TECT. He has served as Sr. Pastor at the Moriba Town UB Church in the city of Bo, a church that averages around 330 worshipers for Sunday morning services. In addition, Emmanuel is the current Superintendent of Church Services for the Conference. In that capacity he oversees all the auxiliary organizations of the denomination. By taking advantage of the Distant Learning Program, Emmanuel is going to be able to obtain his degree without leaving his local church and his family. Emmanuel is married and lives in the parsonage with his wife and children.
Rev. Ruben Assumana is the Sr. Pastor at the Kenema UB Church in the Eastern Region. He is also the Regional Elder.
Ruben is a church planter at heart. He has started two new congregations around Kenema since his assignment there two years ago. The church is currently trying to finish their building which has been funded entirely by members. Because of his hard work and drive, we hope to have many churches established in the Eastern Region.
Ruben is married and holds a Diploma in Theology from TECT.
Rev. Peter Kainwo has served the Sierra Leone Conference in various capacities including working as a District Superintendent. He has a keen interest in youth and children’s work. Over the years, Peter has actively discipled and mentored young men and today there are four ordained ministers in our Conference who were personally discipled by him. In the last seven years Peter has answered the call to attend to the needs of the hundreds of children orphaned by the years of war on the country. He worked as director of a well established orphanage called, Jonathan’s Child Care. This work started when he was a pastor at a church in the Rutile Mines at Mogbwemo. Though he no longer works at JCC, Peter is now working at another orphanage also in the Southern Region of the country. He resides in Bo which makes it easy for him to take classes in the Distant Learning Program. Peter is married with children.
Rev. James Ganda is Sr. Pastor at New London UB Church in Bo where he is doing a tremendous job leading a congregation that is growing and working on the construction of a new place of worship. James is also the Regional Elder for the largest Region, Southern Region, of our Conference. In this capacity, he oversees 43 churches with several preaching points and the bulk of our primary and secondary schools. He is hard working and visits churches in his region on a regular basis. He also has taken advantage of the Distant Learning Program to get his education whilst staying at his station. James is a graduate of TECT with a Diploma in Theology. He is married.
Rev. Albert Swaray is the pastor of our UB church at Luawa which is 2 miles east of Mattru Jong in the Southern Region. In the few years he has been at Luawa, Rev. Swaray has planted 2 churches and opened 1 school in neighboring villages. He uses a bicycle to get around these villages and he knows Mende culture very well and uses it to an advantage as he ministers in the village settings.
Rev. Swaray has the furthest to go to the Distant Learning Center in Bo, but taking advantage of this method of learning allows him to stay where he ministers. He is a graduate of TECT with a diploma in Theology. His fees are higher because he owes fees from last academic year. He is married.
Pastor Miriam Masallay has many years of teaching experience and has felt called into the ministry. She now holds an Annual Conference License obtained at the last Bi-Annual Conference session in December 2009. Currently, Pastor Masallay is an Assistant Pastor under Rev. Ganda at the New London UB Church in Bo. She loves working with children and is a graduate of a Teachers’ Training College. She is taking advantage of the Distant Learning Program in Bo where she resides. She is married. She hopes to go on to become ordained as an Elder and do full-time pastoral work in the Conference.
Rev. Josephine Siattie has served as chaplain at Mattru Hospital for over seven years. Mattru is a 70-bed hospital belonging to the Conference. In that capacity, Rev. Siattie was responsible for holding daily devotions at the outpatients’ clinic, visiting patients in the wards and giving spiritual guidance and counseling as needed.
Rev. Siattie was a permanent presence on the hospital grounds as she moved amongst patients and staff on a daily basis.
Now she has felt the need to upgrade her training and increase her ministerial skills by enrolling at TECT for a Diploma in Theology. She is a full-time residential student on the main campus. Rev. Siattie is a widow. Her husband, who was also a UB ordained minister, was brutally murdered in Freetown during the rebel war.
Samuel Pessima is a member of Au Memorial UB church at Kissy in Freetown. Sammy holds a Higher Teachers’ Certificate with an emphasis in Development and International Law. He has felt the need for improving his qualification in an area that is very strongly needed for a nation as Sierra Leone and for our Conference, so he enrolled at TECT to get a Bachelor’s Degree in Development studies.
Sammy is a 3rd year student. In addition to his active contribution to his local church, Sammy resides at the Conference House where he does security and compound work to earn his daily keeps. He is a hard worker and has great goals for contributing to the Conference.
Mrs. Josephine Bankole is a member of Faith UB Church, Lumley, Freetown. She was the Lay Leader of the church for over two years prior to her receiving her Local Conference License which signaled the start of her ministerial training. Mrs. Bankole has felt a definite call to ministry and her eventual goal is to be an Ordained Elder and serve as a Pastor in a local church. She is a 2nd year student in the Extension program which allows her to stay at home whilst taking classes at a center not too far from home. This way, she can take courses whilst taking care of her household. Josephine is hard working. She runs a beauty salon where they train students as well as attend to clients who come.
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