This month in Swaziland I will be working at a number of different locations. Two of the locations are local Care Points where kids are fed and we can play with the kids and teach them about God. Also we will be doing hospital visits, especially to the children’s ward, as well as visiting patients in a housing complex built for people with HIV, TB, or any number of other ailments.
We are spending the month on what is called a homestead, it is a rural property where a whole family will live and build their houses. The way a homestead typically works is that when someone is old enough to move out of their parent’s house they will start to build their own house on the same property. The home stead that we are staying at has 4 houses, one house under construction, as well as a large round building that is lined with beds. The guys and the married couple are sleeping in the one house that was is used to host missionaries, there is three rooms in this house, one room the married couple is using, the other is where the guys are sleeping as well as where the fridge and freezer are located and the last room is the kitchen. The girls are all sleeping in the large round building, which is a single room building that has 7 bunks in it.
For our main ministry we are working at 2 care points, one is about a 15 minute walk away from our home. The care point is called Timbutini and is located at a local church. The point has a soccer field, and church building, a care takers house, a jungle gym, as well as a few other random buildings. The other care point is called Thulwane and is a 45 minute walk. This care point consist of two small building used for storage, and a couple of trees. At the care points they would serve the local kids one meal a day and while we were there we would play with the kids. I really enjoyed spending time with the kids at Thulwane, which is where I spent a majority of my time for the month.
In my coming blogs I will share a more in depth account of my ministry for the month and also another blog about the country of Swaziland and it’s struggles.
