So this month I’ve had some major blog block. I think it’s at that point on the Race where
this is just my life. I don’t see it as
anything new and exciting but just another day.
So I forgot that in reality this isn’t a “normal� life, and people at home
want to know what my life looks like because it is very different from
their’s. I apologize for my blog block,
and I hope to fill you in on what happened this month.
This month we are at Beacon of Hope in Mozambique. We are working alongside and living with our
contact Angie. Angie is originally from
Texas and has been living and serving in Mozambique for 10 years. I can’t tell you what a blessing Angie has
been to me and my team. She has gone
above and beyond to make sure we have everything we need and even more than
that (including cookies, cupcakes, banana bread, or some other kind of baked
good always at our disposal). I must say
there is nothing like Southern hospitality, and I happy to see that it is alive
and well in Angie even though she’s been in Mozambique for ten years. It reminds me that we’ll never lose our
roots.
Angie has 4 children, one is 27 and her Vice President for
the ministry, another 13, another 11, and another almost 5. All of her children are beautifully
Mozambiquan. A lot of our ministry this
month was pouring into Angie and her family.
She has a few missionary friends here but for the most part she is
alone. And by alone I mean she doesn’t
have any other Americans around her that understand her and what it’s like
living in a completely different culture.
It was so good to just spend time talking with her, mainly letting her
voice her grievances and concerns. It’s
not easy living here, and it was huge for us to just sit and listen to
her. We also spent time pouring into her
children. They absolutely loved the
extra attention they received, and I fell in love with each of them. This place is the first place on the Race that has truly felt like home, even though I’m very far away from home. It was so nice to not be homesick or constantly longing for home.
As for the actually ministry, Beacon of Hope is a home for
teenage boys. The boys come live here
for 3 years. During that time they go to
school, learn many trades, learn about Jesus, and learn to be men of God and
integrity. The goal is that when they
leave they will be able to get a job and be able to provide for themselves and
a family as well as stand up for what’s right and live a Godly life. Currently there are 6 boys in the
program. It is their first year
here. They are so amazing! The second day we were here all six of them
prayed to receive Christ and since then they have grown tremendously over the
course of the month. My heart is
overfilled with joy every time I get to spend time with them and see the men of
God that they are becoming. It has been
such a blessing that God has placed me here at such a time as this.
