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Help Us Complete Exam Hall for Our Students

This Christmas season, Christians prepare for the 2nd Coming of Christ by reflecting back upon His first coming at His birth. This 2021 academic year in Nigeria, after 6 months of school closings due to the C-19 pandemic, HEAL prepares the Masters for their...

School Reopening Requires COVID Compliance

Back in grade school, if there was a snow storm, I would check on radio or TV to find out if school would be closed.  Of course, if weather ever caused school to close for a day or two, it was always a joyful occasion.  What grade school kid wouldn’t want a few days...

Masters Immersed in Ethos of Self-Emptying

I felt sick while praying in the BOMCA Academy chapel with the Masters one evening.  As we walked out of the chapel, I mentioned how I wasn’t feeling well.  The children quickly gathered around and offered to pray for me. Sr. Racheal prays with children in chapel. The...

Teachers and Students Ready to Make Up Lost Time

As a pampered child in America, I always dreaded going back to school after a fun filled summer.  Like most youngsters, I hated school. But, I’m not surprised Nigerian students are eager to end their COVID-19 quarantine and begin learning again.  Upon hearing Nigerian...

New Farm Will Foster Food Independence

I walked into the Messengers of Justice (MOJ) vegetable garden, where Sr. Ann Onyedieke, MOJ taught me how to plant a pumpkin seed.  “Plant the seed with the head facing down so that when it opens the tap root sprouts up through the soil”, she said while demonstrating...

BOMCA Needs Help Overcoming Adverse Conditions

A new fuel tax in Nigeria has spiked the cost of transportation for working people, who expressed their disfavor to our new media partner, CCPM-TV. Combined with the arguably draconian measures now in effect to stop the spread of COVID-19, this tax forms a double dose...

Nurse Agatha: “I see them all as my children!”

I recently wrote about the partial reopening of schools in Nigeria in the continuing battle against COVID-19 and our need for medical supplies to ensure best health practices are followed. Proper use of medical supplies and implementation of official health directives...

Every Job Counts in HEAL’s Mission!

Forming the Masters into Servant Leaders (Mt 20:26) requires various forms of work contributing to the same objective. Not all of this work can be done by the MOJ Sisters and teachers tasked with the intellectual and spiritual development of BOMCA and MENPS students. ...

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