United Methodist churches in Ohio, Illinois, and Michigan are welcoming the director of an orphanage in Liberia that they helped build after the West African country's civil war.
During a stop in Danville, Ill., the Rev. Robert Sieh and his wife, Margretta, will be honored at a June 25 reception at St. James United Methodist Church. Rev. Sieh will give a short presentation about the Bishop Judith Craig Children's Village located outside Monrovia, the Liberian capital.
In the St. James UMC newsletter, the Rev. Randall L. Robinson told how Liberian district superintendents were asked to care for orphaned children as they traveled the country holding charge conferences after the end of Liberia's decade-long civil war. The orphanage resulted from those encounters with the aid of the Detroit and West Ohio Annual Conferences. The orphanage is named for retired Bishop Craig, who headed the West Ohio Conference at the time of the children's village was founded.
Information from the Danville Commercial-News was used in this report.