During the 1990s I had the good fortune to work with a man named Issac Nyeayea at Ricoh. He was on the maintenance crew, had a tremendous attitude, and we became friends. Issac was a Liberian national who was marked for death during their civil war because of his tribal affiliations. He came to the US with the help of his church and over a five year period was able to arrange for his wife and four children to join him. He became an ordained minister and was the pastor of the First United Church of Christ in Staten Island. The church membership is exclusively Liberians, most of which had emigrated with little or no money or clothing. I organized a series of clothing drives to benefit his church and they were kind enough to honor me on a very warm evening in the summer of 1999.
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