Nick Welcomed to Akpim Village Igbo Style

Jul 19, 2019 | Trips

The Igbo people express hospitality for their visitors through displays of their wonderful culture going back to time immemorial. Enjoy this video of my welcoming reception in Akpim village a few weeks ago. Our mission of forming Servant Leaders, in the spirit of...

MOJ’s and Masters Fending for their Food

Jun 11, 2019 | Food, MOJ

In 2017, HEAL’s Coordinator for Widow’s Outreach, named Dorothy, brought Deacon Leo and I to her home village of Ekwe to show us the squalid conditions many of her people were suffering there. We encountered a widow named Ijioma and two of her children, whom I...

Help HEAL fight Malaria!

May 25, 2019 | Medical

On my first trip to Nigeria in 2014, a security guard stopped me at the airport in Lagos and said, “I need your Yellow Fever card.” I replied I didn’t have one, knowing it wasn’t required. He proceeded to take my passport and not return it until Deacon Leo arrived at...

Chinonso making his mother proud!

Apr 19, 2019 | Uncategorized

Chinonso Uwalaka is Rev. Leo’s 10-year old nephew, whom I met during my visit to Nigeria two years ago. For fun, I taught him the popular “rock, paper, scissors” game which he immediately loved. When I visit this summer, I know he’ll be bugging me to play it over and...

Quiz competition fosters Servant Leadership!

Apr 5, 2019 | Education

Driving home into Chicago recently via the I-94 Expy, I noticed a building on the roadside with a large painting of abolitionist pioneer, Frederick Douglass. Next to his visage are the words, “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free!” Indeed, there is no...