Our Mission to Africa: Living Angels and Water Babies…

Sister Elizabeth and one of her miracles

We recently met a living angel. Her name is Sister Elizabeth. She rescues discarded babies, she fixes the broken child, and she works miracles every day.

To visit her is to visit one of the most amazing places on earth. Right in the middle of no-where Africa, she has found her purpose. People come from all around to be blessed by her goodness and charity. She has worked in Ghana for the last 30 years building the Golden Jubilee. This is a national orthopedic training center. Here, the broken child is brought and is fixed; the limbless worker comes to receive a new limb, and the infirm comes to walk once more.

Here crutches are built, prosthesis are made, wheelchairs are crafted, and people come to learn how to use them. Resources are mostly donated—leftover foam from this factory, used prosthetic parts from one countries rejects.

Here there is a certain spirit that hangs in the air. People are happy. People are working hard. Mothers are witnessing miracles every day.

Here are some of their stories:

Rebecca being measured for new orthopedic shoes

This is Rebecca, and she is why we came to find this place. We had the opportunity to bring her here today to be refitted for crutches and shoes. She is 12 years old right now and can walk! This is amazing in the fact that not that long ago she was scooting around on her hands and butt—this is how she got from one place to another. She was born with two feet that didn’t work (club feet), and two hips that didn’t work (hip dysplasia). Through the center’s care she has received a couple of operations, and many weeks spent living right here learning to walk. She is beautiful. She sang us primary songs along our short ride home (she lives just a couple of hours away. She is one of Sister Elizabeth’s miracle children.

Zachery walks well with his new legs

This is Zachary. He lives here. He has been abandoned by his family. He was born without legs. Somehow he was brought to the US and stayed with a foster family while he underwent a series of surgeries. He came back when he was two. He is now almost four. Sister Elizabeth met with his family when he came back, but found out they intended to make him a ‘water-baby’. A water baby is a term she uses for children (usually born in the northern tribal areas of Ghana), that are born with defects and turned out into the river to be given back. Essentially they are drown. She agreed then to bring him to the center, fit him with prosthetics, teach him to walk etc on the condition the family come by every few weeks so that she could facilitate a little bonding. That was a couple of years ago, and no one has seen hide nor hair of the family since. He is happy. He is rambunctious and often in trouble. He is now going to school. He lives at the center. He will have a great life. He is one of Sister Elizabeth’s miracles.

These are many more of Sister Elizabeth’s miracles—a story for each one.