What’s the truth?
There are families who live in houses made of mud and sticks, plastic and tree limbs. There are children who are 10 years old, but who are so malnourished they look no older than 5. There are mothers who walk several miles into town each day to sell produce to support their families. There are families who have no running water and send their children miles away to the spring to fill buckets with water.
This is no longer just an idea, or an image on google. This is no longer a commercial for some organization raising money for hungry children in Africa. This is happening all around me. This is reality.
Most days I ask myself what I can really do for these people. Especially when I’ve spent the night before longing for my soft bed, in my comfortable room, in my huge house. I get to go “home” after seeing all these things. I only get to spend a short season seeing what these people go through, and no matter how hard I try I will never truly understand what they feel, think, or see.
But, I know what they need.
Hope.
Love.
and Jesus.
So, instead of writing a blog encouraging you to come and see a place that I promise will change your world and your faith…
I dare you.
And not just so you can see the despair and the hardships, but so you can see the beauty of having so little.
Everyone should pick up the little snot nosed 4 year old orphan who is dirty from head to toe, but has a bright white smile that takes over your heart. Or get to know the woman at church who always manages to look so beautiful, worshipping the Father at the top of her lungs, even though she has barely enough food for one meal a day. Or the feeling when a 12 year old girl holds your hand through an entire church service and smiles at you with unmistakable joy and thankfulness every time you look at her.
Because the truth is, people in Africa may need our money…but, there is something they need even more than money, they need hope, love, and Jesus.
Now the question is, truth or dare?
