So God spoke to me last week and he said go to Swaziland. I got a phone call from AIM and they asked me if I was willing to co-lead a 3 month long trip for college age students to Swaziland at the end of January. I said I will pray about it and see what God says. To be honest the thought of going back to Africa didn’t sound to appealing to me. The day before the phone call I got an email from a friend I met when I did The Man Hike in October. His email was about how God was calling his family to go to Swaziland for a few weeks in February to see if that would be a long term fit for them. Interesting I thought. Then I also remembered that a few weeks from that phone call, Seth Barns (President of AIM) told me in a one-sentence email to go to Swaziland, Nicaragua, or some community/mentorship thing. They all seemed like random things at the time.
Then the day after the phone call I get an email from my teammate, Carly telling me to check out a blog written by my old coach Gary Black entitled: The Remnant is shaping a nation… that he posted on the same day as my phone call. Remnant was my team name so I clicked to read it, and what do you know it is all about Swaziland. Hmm interesting. The next morning I read Seth’s blog, part of my morning ritual, and it happen to be about Swaziland. Hmm. Oh and the next day he wrote about Swaziland again. Hmm again. At that point I was like maybe I should go to Swaziland. Out of nowhere I was bombarded with Swaziland, I hadn’t read or heard anything about it in at least a couple months. I also felt confirmation in my Spirit that I should go so I said yes to the call!
Swaziland is a small country near South Africa with a population of 1 million people. Of that population 10% are orphan children that’s 100,000 children. It has the highest AIDS rate on the plant with over 26 percent of adults testing HIV positive. The average life expectancy is only 32 years the lowest on the planet and it is estimated that the entire population will cease to exist by the year 2050. (Source C.I.A.)
Swaziland is in incredible need. I am blessed with the opportunity serve and part take in what God is already doing there. My team will be working with local pastors to help take care of orphans, bring healing to the sick and to provide for the destitute. Please consider partnering with me in prayer and financially to bring hope to this country. I need to raise about $2,000 for this trip. You can click HERE to donate to me. Or click on Support Me on the left.
So where is my life going? I don’t know. Good question though. I have given up on trying to plan my life out. Right now God is only giving me glimpses into the near future and I am ok with that. It is sort of more exciting that way anyways. I realize that my life style doesn’t make sense by the world standards, but that’s ok my home isn’t of this world but of another.
