About Us

Our USA FIELD OFFICE & OFFICERS

Abehinnyuen Community of Hope (ACOH), Inc. shares the gospel of love to under privileged/vulnerable communities in Africa and the United States by providing Immigration assistance, languish assistance (interpretations & translations), advocacies, medical assistance and health awareness in tropical and non-tropical diseases to individual(s), healthcare agencies and institutions. We provide academic and vocational education ( agriculture, basic nursing, basic journalism, health & wellness, sanitation, rehabilitation, advocacy and humanitarian services, that will enable vulnerable people to attain their fullest potential and become responsible, engaged citizens and leaders of their communities and societies. We make available community services information, referrals to resources, skills-related education and promote cross- cultural understanding to enable the vulnerable immigrants, as well as other vulnerable people become independent, contributing members of the community and society.

Our Story

In 2009, after residing in the United States for over 20 years and my wife Lucky for over 9 years, we made our first visit to our home country of Liberia. The country was in severe ruin due to the brutal 14 years of civil war. Life was miserable for ordinary Liberians, even for animals.

I consistently hear a small voice in my mind saying, “the people are in need – lots of needs, you can do something.” Lucky also was troubled by the level of suffering from the children and the elderly. Both of us literally teared up. We then started seeking God’s direction about how to impact the lives of the people, especially in the rural areas where the needs were greater, due to lack of accessibility to city areas where basic needs were being provided by non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

In March 2010 & 2012 respectively, Lucky and I visited Liberia again. The country was still in complete devastation. Our hearts were still broken for the huge suffering ordinary people, including children and elderly were going through, and we were burdened with the desire to get involved in the rebuilding of lives and communities in Liberia.

Upon our return to the United States, we started helping with food, medicine, clothes, and footwear.

In 2014, while visiting Liberia again, the deadly Ebola virus struck the country and its neighboring Sierra Leone and Guinea. The Ebola epidemic made the already bad situation worse. It was during this time that God directed us to a holistic (humanitarian) mission, including building hand pump wells for safe drinking water, school, medical assistance, feeding, and planting churches. In 2017, we established Abehinnyuen Community of Hope, Inc., both in New York and Liberia, which is legally registered as a not-for-profit corporation.

All of field officers are passionate and have compassion to impact lives. They love God and people, and they demonstrate it through actions/good deeds – humanitarian services. Each leader, as well as volunteer has the desire to impact the lives of vulnerable people and communities, most especially in developing communities and countries, where people are in dared needs. Our leaders and volunteers have backgrounds in public relations/services, human services, including financial industries and institutions, medical, fashion designs, social services, protecting lives and properties, education, mission, art, and science. The love for God and your neighbors (people) and doing everything as unto God, are the motivational factors for our leaders and volunteers (Matthew 22:36-40 Colossians 3:23-24)

Our core values and commitment to the communities and we serve are the love, passions and compassion to share the Gospel of love to all humanities, mainly, the vulnerable.

Meet The USA Team

Solomon Backon Reeves

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Solomon B. Reeves, the founder, and Chief Executive Officer of Abehinnyuen Community of Hope (ACOH), Inc. was born and raised in Liberia. He relocated to the United States in 1988 to pursue studies in medicine and missiology and earned his undergraduate degree in Biology at Concordia College in Bronxville, New York.

For over 30 years Mr. Reeves is passionate about sharing the gospel of love through actions (humanitarian assistance) to impact lives of vulnerable and underprivileged people in Liberia and the United States, especially in Southern California and New York City. The organizations he has been involved includes the Federation of Liberian Youth (FLY), Scripture Union (SU) of Liberia, Lutheran Social Services of New York (LSSNY), Catholic Guardian Society and Home Bureau (CGSHB) of New York, Staten Island Liberia Community Association (SILCA), and African Immigrant Ministries, respectively as community health activist, missionary, immigrants (refugees resettlement, integration & home finder) case manager, youth care (behaviors modification) worker, and linguist (Bassa interpreter & translator)

Through his efforts, several water wells mounted with hand-pumps were constructed and rehabilitated to provide safe drinking water in Liberia. He provides language translation/interpretation services, as well as legal immigration assistance for African and other migrants living in New York and other cities in the United States.

Solomon is committed to missions and the Abehinnyuen Community of Hope (ACOH) initiatives, such as Community of Hope Academy Mission in Gozohn, Rivercess County, Liberia and the Grace Bible Faith Community Church (aka Grace Bible Faith) of Liberia in Boeglay, Gozohn and Buchanan, respectively. He is a member of Salem Evangelical Free Church and serves as a short term missionary in Staten Island, New York, and Liberia.

Bill Phillips

Chief Financial Officer

Bill Phillips is a retired bank officer, with over 35 years of experience in financial services. He is a member of Salem Evangelical Free Church in Staten Island, New York, and serves in the Hospitality and Financial Counseling ministries. Bill has helped lead several Dave Ramsey “Financial Freedom” seminars at Salem and personally mentors Christian families in biblical stewardship of their resources. He and his wife are the parents of two grown sons and have two grandchildren.

Susan Fowler

Administrative Manager

Susan Fowler currently serves as Digital Programs Manager - Healthy Neighborhood Manager (community organizer for Staten Island), developing digital strategies for making nutrition and culinary education available 24/7 to City Harvest’s agency partners and their clients. Also, looking into fresh-produce loyalty cards for supermarkets and delis.

She is also director of the Staten Island Neighborhood Food Initiative (supported by City Harvest), created a volunteer board of chefs, dieticians, business experts, and community activists that then identified and promoted stores in low-income neighborhoods offering healthy food. See http://sinfi.org/ for details.

As a philanthropist, Susan Organized a group of NYCHA residents to win funding from Councilmember Debi Rose’s participatory budgeting program in 2017, which funneled almost $1 million into two NY City Housing Authority projects.

Ms. Fowler has provided services through volunteerism to help Solve problems in the Stapleton neighborhood that enable tenants in the Stapleton Houses who wanted a community to a garden, and she is instrumental in the Hill Street Garden, which is now in its second year.

Susan has worked with the following organizations in New York and New Jersey, respectively:

Conference House Association, Staten Island, NY, South Street Seaport Museum, New York, NY, Keystone System, Inc., NY, Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore), Piscataway, NJ.

She is also engaged in Small business, such as Staten Island Food Factory, Staten Island, NY, where she wrote a business plan for a community pop-up kitchen that was one of ten finalists in the NY Public Library’s 2015 NY STARTUP!, and Fast Smart Web Design, Staten Island, NY For a select group of non-profits, our company ensures that they are providing clear, actionable information about their programs on their websites and social media. See http://www.ferrysafety.org, http://voycessi.org, and http://ehsees.org/.

Susan is a member of Christ Church New Brighton on Staten Island. She served as chair of the Plant & Equipment Committee between 2005 and 2013 and managed a $100,000 emergency repair of the church tower, including finding an engineer, writing the RFP, and selecting the restoration firm.

Currently, she is the head of the Counters Committee and Junior Warden.

Mayra Roman

Member, Board of Directors

Mayra Roman is a member of Salem Evangelical Free Church, in Staten Island, New York. In her professional life, she is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology and has had a 28-year career as a Fashion Designer, currently employed at Centric Brands Inc., NYC.

Mayra has ministered in diverse settings in the church and the community, serving as a member of Hospitality, Children’s, Grief Share and Gospel Response teams. In August 2014, she joined other Salem members in a mission trip to Colorado to help families who experienced severe storm damage in the town of Estes.

Dr. Kevin La Velle Foster

Member, Board of Directors

Dr. Kevin Foster is a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP).

He started his career in the medical field, which he affectionately calls his public service to humanity and Christ, as a Registered Nurse (R.N.) and a Physician Assistant (PA). He served 13 years in a busy county hospital and 10 in the emergency room. For the last 15 years of Kevin’s career, he has spent working in Urgent Care. Kevin is a lover of God and a student of God’s word. He has authored three devotional books:

1. The Gospel According to Ruth: A Season of Harvest, 121 Days of Devotions.

2. The Gospel According to Jonah: A Call to Obedience, 121 Days of Devotions.

3. The Gospel According to Song of Solomon, A Fruitful Marriage Devotional Commentary.

He posts a daily short devotional read on YouTube titled “A Portion From Today’s Reading,” a 365-day devotion through the Bible. He hopes to inspire whosoever will come to love Christ and His words found on the pages of the Bible. His books are on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShU5ygNoe2s

https://youtu.be/pCKXKeDcgxg

https://youtu.be/yw7OKSZz1eA

https://www.youtube.com/@kevinfoster691

Anthony Torchiano

Member, Board of Directors

Steve Zimmerman
Member, Board of Directors

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