In December 2022, while spending time at the Open Arms Village, near Eldoret, Kenya, we learned of a project that needed completing: a basketball court in honor of a missionary’s father. Ted Whiteman’s father, Tex, was an extremely talented basketball player who played for Oregon State University and was drafted into the NBA. When he…
This past March I traveled with Dave Petersen to Ganta Liberia in West Africa. The purpose of our trip was to check the ongoing Deaf school building project. We wanted to encourage the students, teachers, and pastors so faithfully involved in this project. To date, both the girls and the boy’s dorms have been completed…
In the remote village of Foya, located hours away from Monrovia in Liberia, Beyond the Bricks, partnered with Samaritan’s Purse to construct and equip a basketball court and playground for the community. Local pastors and community leaders were involved in the project as well. We spent a week, building forms, pouring cement, welding pipes, and…