Yesterday we left our homestead at 8:00 am to go into town to help with a retreat for the women who feed the children at the care points, the day before we had been there and helped to decorate and set up. We had watched as 4 very full vans unloaded with African woman of all ages some with small children. All of us were excited to be able to go back and help out leading them in games and other activities.  However, the van we have been traveling in had some trouble starting and on our way out of the area we live in it just stopped running. Being too far to walk back to the house we...

   Last night our team went to the AIM apartments to have dinner with two other missionary families from the states. We refer to them as the “Alabama Gang” because they are from Alabama, but mostly because of their awesome accents.    These two families have been to Swaziland before, but this time they have brought their kids along with them and have decided to permanently serve the Lord by living in this beautiful country. As we sat and shared stories about our families and how we came to be in Africa, it dawned on me that I have not actually sat and thought...

I saw God’s heart yesterday through the girls washing the children’s feet. There were easily 50 children from the age of 1 to 16 who lined up in anticipation to have their feet washed by one of the girls. Some laughed and looked on unsure what to think about the Americans washing their feet. This was our third and last day at this particular care point. The children seemed so different now then our first day when they had just stared up at us with their big brown eye that looked full of pain and sadness, not sure what to think of us. We had been told that since this care point was...

We went to our first care point this past week, which has flown bye so fast, and as we came up to the building there was this man with a huge smile. He seemed at first overwhelmed by all of the white people, but soon came to realize that we were just there to build a relationship with him. After about 15 minutes of being there, the man had shown us more Michael Jackson dances and songs than I have seen on TV. When he was done showing us, I went up to him to compliment how well he spoke English and he just stared at me for about 30 seconds without saying anything. Eventually he spoke,...

    It’s day 4 at training camp in Gainesville, Georgia at the AIM headquarters and it’s been awesome. Since I’ve been here all my fear about an all-girl team has been thrown away. The head-leaders within these few days have told us about the concept of “giving feedback” to one another. My first thoughts, “What do they mean as feedback? Like feedback on my life, how I do what I do?? I don’t want anyone’s help. Are they joking?” Nope, they were not joking.   I continued to listen...