This month marks month 8 and my last month in Africa. I am in the middle of nowhere Nsoko. All you have to do is picture lots and lots of sugarcane fields, and great big mountains in the background and that’s where I am. This month I’m working with Adventures in Missions has been set up in Swaziland for some years. We are on a compound, called compound G-42 where there is the pastor’s house, the clinic, a preschool, a hut were the Gogo’s (grandmothers, or mother to all) cook for the children, a place for a future church, and missionary housing.
This month my team and I will be helping the D-team (disciple team) go to 6 carepoints in the area, and other various ministry’s around the area like house visits, and starting a community garden. At each carepoints there are Gogo’s to help cook the food for the children. About ten years ago a bunch of gogo’s came together to feed their grandchildren because, they inherited them when the children lost their parents to HIV/Aids, or some other dieses. It started off as a small thing, but now with a total of 30 carepoint throughout Swaziland and a total of 4,200 kids total the government stepped in to help. At each of our 6 carepoint there are about 50-90 children that come every day for food. For some this is the only meal they get, because they are either orphans, or their parents can’t afford it. Some of the children it takes them 3-4 miles to walk to the carepoint, from school. Along with food, the D-team visit once a week, to bring the word of God, and to do a skit to follow the teaching. I have to say that I love to meet all the different children at each carepoint, and to just see what it means to have so little, and still have joy in your heart.
I love ministry this month a lot and I have been seeing God in many different ways. With no internet for the whole month, I am able to get closer to my team, and to the community of compound G-42. Right now it has been hard because we have been without power for 4 days now, and it will another 3 days till they turn it back on. It’s a great big joke when our contact tells us, that’s it’s a good thing that everyone else in the area has power except you. In a way I do think that it is God’s handy work, and his work to bring us closer together as a team.
I don’t know when the next time I will be able to post a blog, but I ask for continue prayers for my team, and myself.
