Meet Angel Care

Angel Care meets the dire needs of impoverished mothers in Liberia by sharing the gospel through prenatal and postnatal care for mothers, parenting workshops, and childcare for children through age four.

Liberia is ranked 10th for maternal mortality rates worldwide, and the government offers no assistance to the poor. Liberian women desperately need access to quality prenatal and postnatal care to save the lives of mothers and infants. Angel Care has stepped into this medical services desert to provide quality care to a vulnerable community by providing counseling, baby supplies, prenatal medical care, infant care classes, and parent skills training.

Almost half of all Liberian women have experienced domestic violence in their homes, resulting in unhealthy and destructive habits of interaction within families. Angel Care’s quarterly parenting classes help mothers see and nurture the potential in their children instead of turning to anger. During these two-week courses, women receive training from a professional counselor, pastor, teacher, and lawyer. As families are given tools for healthy parenting, children’s lives are transformed, and women can work toward healing. Entire communities are transformed as these women’s hearts are changed by the gospel and as they, in turn, bring this gospel to their friends and neighbors.

Liberia was devastated by civil war and years of unrest in the 1990s and early 2000s, resulting in the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people, the destruction of housing and utilities, and the deterioration of healthcare facilities. A two-year outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus only served to sap the healthcare system further and negatively affect the economy.

Under the pregnant women and baby mothers’ program, Angel Care hosts parenting training for two weeks every quarter each year.