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Over $2 Million of Construction Done in Partnership with For the Lamb in a Decade in Liberia

Sep 21, 2023 | Blog, Featured

At the end of 2023, I will dissolve the Bricks for Ricks Foundation Liberian Housing Foundation, Inc. Many of you have contributed to the foundation, which has helped to ease the suffering of the Liberian people by contributing to over $2,000,000 in housing...

Some Children are Thankful for Bathrooms and Those Who Build Them

Nov 27, 2022 | Blog

Not many children will be asking for a toilet this Christmas. That’s not something you’d expect to see sticking out of Santa’s red sack. Not many of us can imagine sending our children to school that doesn’t have any toilets, either. Yet many...

30 Years Later Henry Peabody Returns to the Buduburam Refugee Camp

Oct 28, 2022 | Blog

A few weeks ago, Rev. Henry Peabody revisited the Buduburam Refugee Camp, located twenty-seven miles west of Accra, Ghana, where he spent several years of his life over 30 years ago. Henry was one of the hundreds of thousands of Liberian refugees displaced by a...

Anxiety in the Family System

Sep 29, 2022 | Blog

When my wife and I were raising our two sons, we noticed the oldest was struggling with anxiety issues. We took him to a psychologist, and after a couple of sessions, she said, “Don’t bring him back. You are wasting your money. I can’t get him to talk to me.” My...

Avoidance Allows Fear to Grow

Sep 17, 2022 | Blog

When I was a child/adolescent, I was diagnosed with a “nervous stomach.” Fifty years ago, I don’t know how much my doctor knew about the correlation between anxiety and the body. My doctor never used the word “anxiety” to describe my condition, nor was I ever offered...

Bringing Some Order to Your Chaos May be a Breath Away

Jan 19, 2022 | Blog

Not long ago I played a matching card game with my five-year-old granddaughter. I took half the deck of cards and arranged them on the table and we turned them over two at a time. The goal was to find a match: two kings, two sevens, or two aces. You get the idea. It’s...