Sorry I haven’t been able to post since I’ve been in Africa. We haven’t had access to Internet for the past few weeks. So here is a blog I wrote from about a week ago.
We arrived at our ministry host last week in Guija, Mozambique. We drove across this river into this small town. I immediately felt this sense of peace here, like this was exactly where I was supposed to be. The next thing I know we are driving down this dirt path through this community of people living in small houses & mud huts, and there are tons of children running around. Our ministry host, Tienie, said this area is considered the bush of Africa. The land is very flat here and you can see for miles. Our first night here was a breezy one thankfully, since we knew we had many hot days ahead (in the 90’s, even up to 104 one day). This feeling of unexplainable joy filled me. I thought to myself I could get used to this. We found out we were cooking our own meals while we were staying here. I am not a cook, so I had a momentary freak out because I feel sorry for anyone who let’s me cook. Thankfully though my team is awesome and have been super helpful with the many questions I’ve had while cooking J Every morning we have chores at 7:30am, watering the plants and refilling the buckets with water. The way we get water is walking over to the community’s water pump, and pump our water into each bucket. Even though some mornings I am tired, I get this sense of pride getting to do these chores every morning and of course all the kids come out to help and play. It makes waking up early worth it.
Our ministry days have been awesome. We get to go out to different parts of the community, meet people and pray over them. I love prayer ministry. There is something so beautiful in the power of prayer. Even though we don’t speak the same language, we are praying to the same God who can do great things. I love getting to hear about people’s needs and learning how we can pray for them.
One of the days we went to Dothan, a town on a hill outside of where we were staying.One of the older women we prayed for was taking care of 4 orphans. There has been so much death due to HIV and it has wiped out 2 generation of parents, leaving the grand parents/ great grandparents to raise the children. It is so heartbreaking, but these women are so strong. I can’t even begin to imagine to pain of losing your children, and then having to raise their children in their old age. It is so common here. These older woman have been on my heart the last few days and I pray that God keeps providing for them and blessing them for the work they are doing. Seeing the heart of this woman, even though she must have been tired & hungry, her heart was still to pray for the kids health and future.
Our team is going through the book of Acts together and it has been so neat to see the connection between reading Acts and living it out here in this community of Guija. It is really cool! This is what I think following Christ is supposed to look like. Doing life together with fellow believers and going out into whatever community you’re in and being a light for God. Building relationships with those around you and letting God create opportunities to pray over them or speak to them about God.
I can see the good God is doing here, and this is only the beginning! Prayer is powerful & it may seem like only a small thing, but prayer can make all the difference!
