Beauty From Ashes 
One weekend in Manzini, Swaziland. Thirty women. Best three days of the race. AIM founder, Seth Barnes, has always had a heart for the broken in Swaziland. He had a vision of the women being put into an enviroment that would allow them to share their life stories and morn with one another.
He also had a vision that each woman would create a story book that would allow her to express her pain that she has indiviually endured.
The women in Swazi are taught to hide. To let their life and hardships be buried. To go unexposed. A small team of eight girls put together a womens conference called “Beauty from Ashes.” We set up meals, team shirts, speakers, worship, a program, but GOD did the rest. He took women out of their pain into a place of freedom and restoration. This was the best weekend I could have ever been a part of and seen. I just sat back and cried. What I saw was church. I saw true worship. I don’t quite have the words, so I thought the pictures would do the rest. When you look at each woman, know that she has been through the fire but came out victorious and refined. These are the survivors of Swaziland. Follow the journey with them.
Day of Beauty to come……..
