Since 2023, IDES has worked with a partner in Liberia to start 26 farms, including 10 this past year. The villages are trained in the principles of Farming God’s Way, provided with the tools they need, given a well (when needed) - and the results have been incredible! These farms are seeing yields that were never thought possible. Families and villages have been transformed because they, for the first time in recent memory, have plentiful harvests to fuel their minds and bodies.

Even more exciting, God has been moving mightily through these farms! People are accepting Christ and being baptized, new disciples are actively growing in faith and in knowledge of the Lord, churches are being planted, and church plants are reaching their neighboring villages with the Gospel. The impact is almost too much to count when you think about the transformation happening on the individual, family, and village levels.

Take Whapoetay, for example. A few years ago, at the start of our original farming project with this partner, he was growing marijuana in an effort to make money to feed his family. Our partner gave him the opportunity to learn proper farming techniques and to grow corn, and also shared the Gospel with him. He believed in Jesus, got baptized, and started leading the farm work in his village. He introduced his friends to Jesus, baptized them, and helped plant a church in his village. He has now undergone 2 years of intensive Bible training and is preaching in 3 villages every Sunday, as well as leading Bible studies in 3 different villages. So, not only has Whapoetay’s family been transformed, to now have a stable source of food and income, but so have many families in his village. And, Whapoetay is now a disciple of Jesus that is making new disciples of Jesus. This process is being replicated over and over, throughout many of the 26 farms that our partner in Liberia has started with help from IDES. Praise God for all that He is doing!