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.
 

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