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Liberian Presbyterian returns home to begin building promised school

LOUISVILLE — On Oct. 19. Isaac Monah makes his second trip home to rural Liberia since he fled the war-torn country in the mid-1980s and subsequently emigrated to the U.S. in 2002.

Now a U.S. citizen — he took his citizenship oath last month — and an elder at Noble Road Church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Monah is going home to break ground for a school — Dougbe River Presbyterian School of Liberia. He promised God and his fellow villagers he would build for them.

"By the grace of God and the weather, we will have one classroom done by the start of the next school year in May," Monah told the Presbyterian News...

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