In 1996, 7-year-old Cammue Mendawe Gweh was running through a jungle in war-torn Liberia to escape death after rebel soldiers attacked his village, burned the huts, and killed many of his neighbors. Rescued from certain death by his mother’s sister, Aunt Kemah, the pair spent months hiding and foraging for food. With his Liberian family scattered and likely dead, an uncle brought him to an orphanage in the town of Gbarnga.
There, a woman from his tribe renamed him Jackson Kofi after the trauma caused him to forget his own name. This new name had belonged to a pastor’s beloved son, who had drowned, and it was this man, Pastor Kofi of the African Christians Fellowship International, who would become one of the miracle workers in the boy’s life.
