Wellington Square United Church

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Feb 18
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Feb 29
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Mar 10
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Mar 31
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Welcome Pastor Hassan Mansaray!


We are very excited to have him here with us Sunday, from Sierra Leone, to share his incredible journey of faith and love. Born and raised in a rural tribal community of West Africa, Pastor Hassan came to know Christ, which led him on a 25-year adventure of danger, survival and heroic feats of courage in the face of a brutal 11-year civil war.
Pastor Hassan’s “heart was broken” by the widespread suffering of abandoned children, and feeling the call to help them, he began to take hurting and hungry children into his home. His only income came from 2 small churches where he served as pastor to a mostly unemployed community. Relying solely on trust in our loving God, Pastor Hassan’s faith, compassion and obedience moved him to fight for the hearts of orphans, which led to the start of the Wellington Orphanage in 1995.
Pastor Hassan gathered 64 children in the beginning years, in various crude buildings, only 22 short of the 86 that currently reside in the orphanage today. He sold his home, his bed and even his eating utensils in order to buy food for the children and a place to sleep, while volunteers worked tirelessly to love, teach, and care for all of the children that began to show up on their doorstep. In 2002, a new home for the orphanage was donated by a terminally ill elderly woman, and that home serves as the official site of Wellington Orphanage today. Since then, additions to the orphanage and schools have been built, as aid organizations returned to Sierra Leone, and the plight of the children was heard around the world. All 86 orphans living in Wellington Orphanage are being given residential care, including food, clothing, education and medical care. The first five of the orphan children have been sent to university, and many others are in high school, as Wellington Orphanage continues to be a place where God’s hand is very present, and hope is never lost.
Pastor Hassan is married with children of his own. As well as founding the Wellington Orphanage, he is also the President of 4HIM Sierra Leone and General Overseer of the Lord’s Mission Church that runs many schools and churches in remote parts of the country.

A Tale of Two Wellingtons

Wellington Square and Wellington Orphanage are celebrating 8 years of partnership in helping the children come to experience the love of God. Since 2002, we have helped raise money and/or supplies for a container sent to the children of Wellington Orphanage every year. This has included clothing, shoes, household items, educational resources, sports equipment, medical supplies, hospital beds, wheelchairs, canes, bikes, tools, seeds and more! While we have financially supported the Orphanage every year, we have also had other years of specific focus:
— In 2004, we financed a poultry program for the orphanage so that each child could receive an egg each day and the additional chickens raised could be used as food or sold for other food
— In 2006, we raised sufficient money to purchase a large farm, farm equipment and seeds etc.
— In 2007, we set up a sponsorship program, (which is still going today) so that each child in the orphanage could be financially “adopted” and received 3 meals/day, have clothing, medical needs met and an education
— In 2009, we sent Christmas “shoeboxes” to the children at Wellington Orphanage as well as financial support
God answers the prayers of these children at Wellington orphanage through the work and generous compassion of our congregation here at Wellington Square.

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