Charles and Comfort Minor, the authors of this Study, were joined together in marriage by their friend, the late United Methodist Bishop S. Trowen Nagbe and Charles' Father, Rev. E. B. Minor and Comfort's sister, the Rev. Evelyn Kandakai Scott, in 1970, in their home church, the First United Methodist Church of Monrovia. In over 52 years together, they have been active church members at home, and active in churches in Ghana, in the United States and in the Netherlands, where they have lived, worked and made contributions in international development, private sector growth and diplomacy for some 30 years. They have had three biological children, one went to be with the Lord in 2012, two grand-children, nieces and nephews they have adopted as their own children and many others they have sponsored at home and abroad.