ACCORDING TO THE CHURCH HISTORY OF LIBERIA,  LIBERIA WAS THE FIRST COUNTRY IN AFRICA TO GET HER INDEPENDENCE.  LIBERIA WAS THE FIRST COUNTRY IN AFRICA THAT RECEIVED GOSPEL MISSION  FROM  USA AND OTHER COUNTRIES  ABROAD.  THE NATION LIBERIA FOUNDATION WAS BUILT ON CHRISTIAN PRINCIPALS  AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE LIBERIAN HISTORY. THE WORD LIBERTY MEANS FREE.  ON THE SEAL  OF LIBERIA IS WRITTEN, "THE LOVE OF LIBERTY BROUGHT US HERE."  THE FIRST NAME FOR MONROVIA, THE CAPITAL OF LIBERIA WAS CALLED CHRISTOPOLIS WHICH MEANS THE CITY OF CHRIST, BUT OUR PAST LEADERS WHO PRETENDED TO LOVE GOD AND DID NOT LOVE HIM CHANGED THE NAME  FROM CHRISTOPOLIS TO THE NAME OF ONE OF THE AMERICAN PAST PRESIDENT NAME  JAMES MONROE.  FROM THE TIME THE CAPITAL WAS CALLED MONROVIA.  THAT HAPPENED IN THE LATE 1860s AFTER THE INDEPENDENCE OF LIBERIA, JULY 26, 1847. 

MANY OF THE PAST LEADERS WERE PART OF OTHER SECRET SOCIETIES AND THEY WERE SHARING INNOCENT BLOOD IN THE LAND CARRYING ON RITUALISTIC KILLINGS, BUT GOD'S INTENSION FOR  LIBERIA WAS THAT LIBERIA WOULD BE THE LIGHT IN AFRICA AND  SHARE THE GOSPEL TO EVERY AFRICAN NATION BUT LIBERIA  DID NOT DO SO.  THE LORD SENT A PROPHETESS BY THE NAME OF MOTHER DULKLY AND SHE BEGAN TO PROPHESY SAYING TO LIBERIA, "REPENT AND CONFESS YOUR SINS FOR THE LORD IS ANGRY WITH LIBERIA."  SHE BEGAN TO SAY, "THE BLOOD IS TOO MUCH OVER THE LAND."  BECAUSE THIS PROPHECY,  AT MIDNIGHT, MEN WERE SENT TO HER HOUSE TO RAPE HER AND KILL HER, AND UNKNOWN MEN RAPED HER AND KILLED HER THAT NIGHT.  FIVE YEARS LATER THERE WAS A BLOODY CIVIL WAR THAT STARTED 1990 IN LIBERIA.  SO, SINCE LIBERIA FAILED TO CARRY ON GOD'S MANDATE, THE LORD GAVE THE MANTLE TO OTHER NATIONS IN AFRICA SUCH AS NIGERIA AND GHANA. 

LIBERIA WAS IN A DARK SHADOW AS A NATION AND UNDEVELOPED COUNTRY.  BECAUSE OF THE WAR THAT BROKE OUT, MANY LIBERIANS FLED INTO OTHER COUNTRIES AS REFUGEES. WOMEN WERE RAPED, CHILDREN WERE KILLED, MANY PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES AND SO MANY DEVASTATIONS TOOK PLACE IN THE LAND OF LIBERIA, BUT IN THE MIDST  OF ALL THESE THINGS, GOD WAS RAISING MEN IN EXILE AND IN LIBERIA TO SPREAD THE  GOSPEL OF CHRIST IN LIBERIA.  NOW LIBERIANS ARE  GETTING TO UNDERSTAND  THE TRUE MEANING OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.