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Jesus Loves the Little Children

June 21, 2014
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Something that has been prominent on my heart this week is Genesis 1:27 – “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” In my previous mission trips to Africa, I was never much of a baby-holder. I always connected more with the older, teenage girls and shared life with them. Almost every day this week, God placed a baby girl in my arms. My ministry team is working with AIM administration, going to all the different care points around Manzini and collecting information for the children’s...

Wow. I’m in Africa!

It has been a week since I left the familiarity of the United States to set out with 33 other individuals on this adventure of a lifetime to Swaziland. I have already experienced so much and somehow there is still so much further to go! Each and every day there is something that makes me stop and say “Wow. I’m in Africa!” because the enormity of my current reality still hasn’t fully set in. I am blessed to be living with 10 beautiful, crazy, insightful and loving women at this adorable homestead, complete with a rooster that never fails to start crowing at...

The Sides of Swaziland

June 21, 2014
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Throughout this trip I’ve seen many sides of Africa. I see the hunger and poverty every day. I see it when a two year old baby is the size of a six month old. I see it when a child’s diaper is really just a plastic bag. I see it when the rice is gone at the carepoint and children fight over burnt scrapings on the bottom of the pot. I see it when kids stomachs are huge not because they have enough food but because they are literally starving. I see it in the faces of crippled people on the sidewalk begging for money and love. And I see it while doing paperwork for the sponsored...

Serving like Jesus.

Wow where do I even begin to describe my time in Swaziland so far. It has been amazing to say the least. So many wonderful things have happened and God has already shown us so much. There have been many things that have touched my heart but the Nkambule Family definitely has touched me the most. This is a family of ten kids and a mother and father. We met this family because a few of my teammates had found them when some of the girls of the Nkambule family were fetching water from the creek. And when I say fetching water I mean taking 5 or 6 huge buckets and filling them to the brim with...

Blessed in Darkness

June 14, 2014
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Two days into being in beautiful Swaziland, we were able to get on wifi and I was definitely stoked for the moment when I finally would be able to tell my friends and family about how wonderful this land and its people are (possibly the most beautiful people I have ever met). When I got online I saw a message that had said that one of my dear friends had passed away Monday morning. It hit hard and fast. What do you do when you lose someone and you are a world away from everyone you know? What do you say when you can’t come running home? What do you do when you feel like no one...

It takes a little faith

For the past couple months, my heart has been bursting with excitement at the thought of spreading Jesus’s love to and playing with the children of Africa. Since we have such a large team and there are various ministry opportunities here in Swazi, we were broken up into different groups of ministry. I was thrilled to be assigned to carepoint ministry, which provides children with both food and an education. Much to my dismay, I was switched from carepoint ministry to administration due to certain logistics. As much as I would like to say that I trusted God and happily accepted this...

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