CORM Field Notes: What Freedom Sounds Like | Mary and Dora's Story
- Stacy Omorefe
- 2 hours ago
- 3 min read
In 2011, we brought two sisters home to us.
Dora had been used and abused by her own grandmother. Mary had been sold across the border into Togo to work for a man who had paid for her. They were eight and ten years old. Through careful negotiations and the help of a trusted family member, we brought Mary back from Togo and freed Dora from her grandmother's home.
What they had been told, by the very adults who were supposed to protect them, was that we were coming to kill them. To sacrifice them. To cut off their heads.
They wailed for over an hour as we drove them from their village to CORM. Two little girls, certain they were on their way to die.
Abigail had been rescued from Lake Volta just a few months earlier. She was from a village near theirs. She knew their language. When she saw the two terrified little girls climbing out of the car that day, she walked over and spoke to them in the words they understood, from a voice they could trust.
"You are safe. No one is going to hurt you. This is home."
Within a few hours, Mary and Dora were inside watching a children's video with the other kids. Laughter. Two little girls singing along at the top of their lungs.
"I want candy."
They did not understand a word of English. But it did not take them long to figure it out.
That is what freedom sounds like on the first day.
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This Week At CORM
March 30th, our community celebrated Pastor Johnbull on his birthday. The day was full of fun activities, dancing, games, cake and ice cream, stories, and gratitude. Thank you for making this a special day for our Daddy & founder.
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Our students at Faith Roots International Academy are finishing up their end-of-term exams. Pencils moving, brows furrowed, heads bowed over papers that represent a future that almost passed them by. In just a few days, the Children's Village will fill with laughter as the children head into their Easter and end-of-term two break.
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This week marks the official launch of our Partners in Freedom monthly giving campaign. After nearly 20 years of rescue and restoration work on Lake Volta and beyond, we are inviting a community of committed monthly givers to stand with us. Not just for a season. For the long journey ahead.
A Field Prayer for Holy Week
This is Holy Week. The week that changed everything.
We remember a God who did not watch from a distance. Who entered the suffering. Who rode into the chaos on a borrowed donkey, washed dirty feet with his own hands, and chose the cross when he could have chosen otherwise.
We remember that rescue has always been costly. That freedom has always required someone willing to go in.
Lord, as we walk through this week, let us not rush past the weight of what you carried. Let us sit with it. Let us be undone by it.
And then let us rise, because Sunday is coming, with the full knowledge that no child, no story, no life is beyond the reach of a God who defeats death.
For every child still waiting to be found: you see them. You went to the cross for them. Send us.
He is risen. And because He is, we go.
Amen.
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