Greetings from our Swaziland debrief! I’m sorry I have not posted latley. Our internet access has been extremely limited…but I hope to fill you in onthe last month or so now!
We reached Mozambique without a hitch and went to a village called Pambara in Vilanculos. We lived in the community for a couple of weeks and played with the orphans and lived life with the people. We got some great first-hand experience at stripping reeds, which they use for their homes and buildings and carrying water from the community pump. The water carrying was back-breaking work, and I will never forget the looks of mirth on the lady’s faces as they gracefully loaded the water buckets on their heads while we got splashed from head to toe at our attempts! 🙂
Next, we moved to a missionary family’s home from South Africa. They are a wonderful family and we could not have asked for better hospitality. They set up a trip for some of us to visit another nearby orphanage and we jumped at the chance! The “orphanage” consisted of some Unicef tarps strung together that the children slept under and a cooking fire. These children literally have nothing! Fortunately, the Lord provided for us to take some donated clothes, blankets and sleep mats for them. I know it is true more than ever now; He truly is a Father to the fatherless. He cares for those children so much and it was a true blessing to be able to serve them in any small way. We spent a few days playing with them, we briefly visited their school and we were able to get a few of them some much-needed medical attention.
We arrived in Swaziland a week ago and have been busy debriefing our time in Mozambique and getting ready for the future. We are also looking forward to and preparing for a new batch of World Racers to join us this weekend. They are just starting out on their journeys and we will be part of their training.
My team and I will be in Swaziland for the rest of June and head back to South Africa for July. Please keep my teammate, Jimmy in your prayers. He and his sister, Joy (who is also on the Race) will be going ahead of us to Southeast Asia to do some much-needed preparation work. They will be locating contacts and possible ministry opportunities.
The internet access here in Swazi is not the best. But I will try to post more regularly!
Thank you for your continued prayers and comments! …until next time! 🙂
