
Frido Kinkolenge
A missionary with the General Board of Global
Ministries of the United Methodist Chuch and the EmK Weltmission (United
Methodist Church in Germany), Frido N. Kinkolenge is Director of
Children’s Ministries in the UMC Liberia Annual Conference and EmK
Weltmission Children’s Project Manager in Liberia.
Mr. Kinkolenge’s particular focus is with the Liberia ex-combatant
children ministry. This ministry is to help former child soldiers to be
reintegrated into the community and to be accepted back into their
families. Children and young adults recruited as soldiers were forced to
take drugs in order to cope with wreaking the havoc required of them,
often inflicting their own families with abuses leading to HIV.
With intensive counseling, life-skills training and love, Frido is
helping to reintegrate these young people into the community through
education in drug-related and trauma healing workshops. Trainees in the
programs learn skills such as soap making, tie and dye, computer
literacy, typing, pastry and graphic arts. The programs are to
strengthen the new post-war government’s efforts to educate its citizens
for a better future.
“These children who have been soldiers, they know the things they’ve
done and they worry that they will not be accepted back into society.
Many of these children have not known any love. They’ve never had time
to grieve. Some cannot read or write but with help they can experience
healing, become productive and be convinced to move away from violence.”
Frido was born at the Kintobongo Catholic Mission in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo. He holds degrees in Psycho-Pedagogy/Language and
French Literature (1997), Psycho-Pedagogy/French and African Linguistics
(1988) and a Diploma in General Pedagogy (1983). All were awarded in the
DRC.
Mr. Kinkolenge came to mission through the GBGM-UMC Missioner of Hope
Program when teaching at university and other higher education
institutions. He is married and he and wife Betty are the parents of
daughter, Josiane.
Frido Kinkolenge is available for Covenant Relationship support in North
Carolina Annual Conference .
Make an online donation to: Frido Kinkolenge #15152Z.
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The
following newsletters and flyers have been submitted by Frido so that he
may share his work and ministry:
Missionary Newsletter
CESPRO (Children Empowered For Sustainability Program)
Flyer
Ex-combatant children in Buchanan
Internally Displaced Children
My Daughter's Place Program in Camphor Mission
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