In Memory – Doris Thompson

This month, the Kuwaa Mission is praying for the Thompson family, co-founders of the Kuwaa Mission.  Doris Thompson, the mother of the family died on May 19, 2025, at a ripe old age.

To adopt her into their culture, the Kuwaa people named Doris Korto, meaning “so beautiful as to cause a war or dispute.” Korto and her husband, Dick Thompson (Sumbo), who predeceased her, were one of the two families the Lord blessed the Kuwaa people with in the 1970s. Yes, the Thompsons and the Stellings, Diane and Ed, were firmly committed to the task of helping the Kuwaa people read the Word of God in their own language. But they were just as eager to demonstrate that Word in their everyday living among the Kuwaa people!

“Those people became one of us,” is how the Belleh Governor in Monrovia, Governor James Mafalon, put it when he received the news of Doris’ death.

“She was one of us” is not a phrase that the Kuwaa people use to refer to just anyone, especially not a white person. That person must have convincingly identified with them! The Thompsons identified entirely with the Kuwaa people! Announcing his mother’s death to the Kuwaa Mission Board on May 20, 2025, Todd, the Thompsons’ elder son (a Kuwaa Mission Board member), wrote:

As I lay awake early this morning, I reflected on what an amazing and challenging life she and my father led. The Kuwaa people meant more to them than almost anything. If my dad had been able, he would have lived in Liberia forever. My mom was always looking out for others. Even in her dementia, she always had things to do, people to worry about. You were all part of her life, and I know she appreciated you and your work.

It is exciting that even in death, the Thompsons continue to support the work we do among the Kuwaa people, their adopted family through at least one of their offspring! Prayer: Dear God, we thank you for the many gifts you bestow upon your people in every generation. We thank you today, especially for Dick and Doris, whose presence among the Kuwaa people helped those people see the extent of your love for them. You continue to bless the works of their hands through the generations after them. Thank you! Now, we ask that you not only multiply the impact of what we do for your work but also the impact of the gifts you give us. Amen!

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