About Us

Background & Formation of SAVE

During the height of the Sierra Leone’s rebel war of the 1990s a group of concerned Christians at Zionsville Fellowship in Zionsville, Indiana, started to pray as to how best help alleviate the suffering in Sierra Leone. Those early meetings in Zionsville, organized and inspired by Sierra Leone born Dr David Musa and Zionsville Pastor Keith Ogorek, marked the beginning of SAVE as an organized group and by early 2007 it was a registered non-profit corporation.

 

SAVE Mission Statement

With the help of God, to voluntarily make ourselves available as instruments of agape love to the people of Sierra Leone, maintaining a healthy balance between social action and evangelism: a combination of relief and relationships.

 

SAVE Purposes

The specific purposes of SAVE are understood within the context of the Christian faith and community: 

  1. To minister to the spiritual, educational and physical needs of the people of Sierra Leone

  2. To provide support to existing Christian ministries in Sierra Leone

  3.  To heighten public awareness of the great needs in Sierra Leone

  4.  To encourage and facilitate personal and practical involvement in meeting the needs of Sierra Leone

  5.  To commit time to pray for the church and the nation of Sierra Leone

 

SAVE Board Members

As SAVE attracted more friends in the U.S. Midwest (Indiana, Illinois, Chicago and Wisconsin) and it became a non-profit corporation then it started to directed by an elected Board of Directors. 

The two leading officers on the SAVE board were both born and grew up in Sierra Leone. The SAVE president is Dr. Radcliffe Jones and its Executive Director is Dr. David Musa.

Dr David Musa (SAVE Executive Director) was born in Mano, Sierra Leone. He came to know the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Savior through the ministry of Scripture Union of Sierra Leone (SUSL) and when a college student he was a dynamic leader in the college Christian Union. On completion of his degree from the University of Sierra Leone (Fourah Bay College, Freetown) he ministered for two years full-time with the Scripture Union. After working with SUSL he pioneered the ministry of the Sierra Leone Fellowship of Evangelical Students (SLEFES, Sierra Leone’s equivalent of Inter- Varsity, USA) and was its first full-time national worker. He currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is a faculty member at Carthage College, Kenosha, teaching religious studies and director of the Spiritual Formation Institute at Eastbrook Church. David is married to Ndidi (also from Sierra Leone) and they have two sons Ndiloma and Ukejeh, and a daughter Ngozi.
 

The other board members include Chris Follman (Treasurer), Nancy Swanson (Secretary), Mike Chapel, Dot Chapel, Rosetta Cherif, Linda Cutcliff, Mike Gardiner, Don Miller, and Sandy Pedrick.