New Farm Will Foster Food Independence

Oct 2, 2020 | Appeal, Food, Projects

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...

Every Job Counts in HEAL’s Mission!

Jul 31, 2020 | About, Food

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. ...

MOJ Sisters Feed the Hungry During Pandemic!

Jul 8, 2020 | Food, Needs

Today everyone is worried about catching a virus.  In Nigeria, however, everyone is worried about catching their next meal. Efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19 have had drastic “side effects”, pardon the medical metaphor.  Increased checkpoints, quarantines, and a...

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...

HEAL Students begin clearing brush for planting

Feb 15, 2019 | Food

Scripture tells of “…a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted…”. In the rural village of Akpim in Nigeria, the BOMCA students and Messengers of Justice have begun clearing away brush for the planting of various crops including pumpkin,...