MONROVIA, LIBERIA: WITCHDOCTOR'S THREAT

Jean and I stood on the balcony of our fourth floor room and watched as a witchdoctor and his group marched up to the hotel to attack the ministry team. (You can see them in the center of the photo.)

Hotel security stopped them. In defiance, the witchdoctor over and over again would point at one of the flag poles and it would shake violently.

Is the enemy powerful? Yes, but "greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world."

The meetings filled the largest stadium every night. Thousands flocked the altars to accept Christ.

LIBERIAN PRESIDENT SAMUEL K. DOE

Liberian President Samuel K. Doe was very warm in his greeting. I had the sense he cared about his people.

On his desk was a picture of him in a round wooden frame that his children had given him.

Engraved in the wood around his image was the children's message, "Remember, Samuel K. Doe, Jesus loves you."

He loaned the ministry team I was with his personal armored car and military escort to move around the city.

Shortly after we met, rebels overthrew his government, killed him and toured his butchered body around Monrovia in a wheelbarrow.

I think of him often and pray for his family.