El Shaddai
The location of this past month’s ministry was spectacular. On the top of a mountain at an orphanage called El Shaddai. In the mornings ministry looked like digging trenches for water lines or shoveling pig poop or pulling weeds in a huge corn field. In the afternoons, we worked with our buddy by tutoring them or help them with their homework. The vision for this place is beautiful. Swaziland is a hopeless country. This country has the highest percentage of HIV. Based on the numbers and rate of its spread, many don’t expect this to be a country for much longer. However, the vision for El Shaddai is to raise up the next set of leaders through this place. The vision is to let God use the least of these in a group of orphans to lead in the comeback of this country. This kind of vision seems to be God’s forte. Use a shepherd boy like David to lead a nation or a Carpenter like our Savior to lead us to salvation.
We planted seeds the other day in the garden here. We planted everything from pineapple to cauliflower to tomatoes and potatoes. We won’t see the harvest this month, but the seeds are there. They have fertile soil to grow in. From here on out we pray. We pray that God brings a large harvest. We pray that in the coming years the fruit of this place would be educated Christ-like leaders, and that the harvest would be bountiful, because we know, the harvest is coming.
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” -Galatians 6:9
