After working in Liberia for more than a year, and having monitored the strength and weaknesses of the mass media in the country, the Global Ekklesia news magazine says it will offer local church-media workers free classes in digital photography, also referred to as digital photo lab, taking up to 26 participants.
The first in-person training (Phase I) is scheduled for September 30, 2025 and will run for two hours at the JNB Foundation in Rehab, Paynesville. This training is an eye-opener to the world of digital photography and will give participants an overall view of this unique field.
Phase II will start in October 2025, with duration anywhere from 1—2 months at the JNB Foundation. Gender-friendly, this training is designed to prepare church-media workers to stay effective in performing digital still & motion photography. Of about 13 local churches targeted, each will send two representatives and pay a minimal fee of US$10.00 each to facilitate printing and field trips.
Participants who will perform well will receive certificates of achievement at the end of the training course. Training will run from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Presenters will include Liberia’s renowned commercial photographer and graphic designer, Anthony Quoi, and Global Ekklesia’s publisher, James Kokulo Fasuekoi, an experienced newspaper photojournalist and former Associated Press Liberia War-photographer.
Global Ekklesia, a nonprofit online Christian news magazine, started publication October 6, 2021 in Howard Lake, a small city in western Minnesota surrounded by cornfields and apple orchards, before later moving to Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Ekklesia was officially launched in Monrovia, Liberia, on October 25, 2024, by its editor and publisher, James Fasuekoi, assisted by US-based Liberian medical practitioner, Dr. Lawrence A. Zumo.