Fire!!

​"Fire!! Fire!!"

The word echoed through campus, more and more voices joining the chant. Bobbing lights quickly headed into the darkness, straight for the burning field as students yelled back and forth.

"Grab buckets! As many as you can find!"

Kenneth stuck his head in our doorway and grabbed the stack of buckets we had raced to find, and calling the older boys to come and help, quickly disappeared again into the darkness, buckets in hand.

He and Selah had headed out to Camp Four that evening to take Selah's friend home and were shocked to see the huge yellow flames off in the distance. It was probably just a regular burning that had gotten out of control, but it had quickly engulfed an entire field across the road from ABCU's property. After arriving back home, Kenneth had immediately walked out into the darkness to check and see if it had spread.

"It's probably not on our property, but I'll just take a look," he had said.

Finding what he had feared, he quickly called another professor at the dining hall while he waited at the edge of the field where the fire burned. Within minutes students were running to the fire and cutting palm branches, lining up to attack the rising flames. 

"We are the ABC fire department!" they sang as they beat at the flames, girls and boys next to each other, swinging their palm branches at the glowing fire. Within 15 minutes the fire was out, and the "fire department" trouped back, still singing, now victoriously, at the top of their voices.

What a night! And what a courageous group of students we have at ABCU. We are thankful that they rushed to the fire, not away, saving our gardens and palm trees from further damage. Today rain fell for the first time in over two months, and the next week will bring new green grass to cover the burns of this week. 

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Thanks for following along on our adventures! 

If you haven't already, check out our YouTube channel for random videos of our lives. Some are short devotions by Kenneth, others are clips of places and things we see here in Liberia. Enjoy!