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Happy New Year everyone! 2018 was a year full of ups and downs, full of adventures and God sightings. I am so grateful that His mercies are truly new every morning! Check out the latest news on how ministry is going in Swaziland! Kudvumisa Foundation's clinic building is looking beautiful! Summer Camp Sukuma is starting this next week! An a new year of God sightings to be discovered!
Eight years and counting! Join me as I celebrate 8 years of ministry in Swaziland!
Hereās my update on the amazing things God is doing in Swaziland!
Khisimusi Lomuhle!Ā Merry Christmas!
Hereās my Christmas Newsletter! Iāll be returning to Swaziland in less than a week on December 29th. Excited for what God has in store in this new season. Check it out!
Check out my October Newsletter about my time in Swaziland!
Life can throw us some curve balls, but we know He is is the one who is called faithful and true! Those of you in Colorado Iād love to see you during my time here ;) Love you all!
Beautiful Asande,Ā nicknamed Starverā¦.
A once starving baby in desperate need of nourishment found a daily bowl of yummy Manna Pack Rice at a CarePoint that transformed her world.
Childrenās Cup first did a story on her in 2011 describing how Manna Packs can make a difference in a kiddos life. View the video: http://vimeo.com/21825753
In 2012 I captured a picture of her during meal time chewing on a red spoon. Healthy and happy hanging out by the cooking pots. And now in 2015 I rediscovered her glowing face! Sheās full of joy and I was so excited to see her again!
Love being in Swaziland and seeing how God is transforming the lives of kids in the 7 years Iāve lived here and beyond!
*** Plus, I love this obvious love and obsession of chewing on a plastic spoon Asande has ā¤ļø
Hello from Swaziland! Hope everyone is doing well! Here is a longer overdue update on what the Lord is doing in Swaziland. He has been doing some amazing things here! This newsletter is filled with stories about kiddos, nursing, Bible Club lesson's, music concerts and more! Thank you for all your love and support! Hope you enjoy reading the impact you are apart of here in Swaziland!
Hello everyone! My long overdue newsletter has arrived! God has been doing amazing things here. I can't believe I've been serving in Swaziland for six years now and loving it!
God is doing a great work. Check it out!!
Love you guys!
Tea time @theCarePoint. Avocado, bread, and five roses tea. #lovingcompassionatefacilitators #inspired
Clinic under a tree with this beauty. What a great way to celebrate 5 years today in Swaziland :)
Check out my Summer newsletter!
Luluās Story
For the privacy and protection of this child we have changed her name to Lulu.
Lulu is a 15-year old girl who has faced a lifetime of sorrow in her young life. Luluās mom died when she was only 3 years old from AIDS leaving her with the same life threatening virus that is taking over the small country of Swaziland.
Surrounded by family, Lulu was lovingly cared for by her father and step mom. At times she would also stay with her motherās side of the family. Lulu could feel a divide between the two sides of the families and it began to take its toll on her. When she was cared for by her stepmom she had access to a Childrenās Cup carepoint that provided a daily meal, Bible club, and transport every month to get her HIV medications. She grew strong and found support at home to take her medicine properly. When she went to stay with her motherās side of the family, they said that her and her mom where bewitched.
No disease, no virusā¦
but that her mother died from being bewitched
and no amount of medical care would save her from death.
She too was bewitched like her mom.
Lulu lost hope, and stopped taking her life sustaining medication.
She became very sick and lost lots of weight.
She was so thin and weak she had to be admitted to the hospital to be given special medicine and food to try to save her life. Three American pastors on a Childrenās Cup trip accompanied the medical team to visit her in the hospital one cold Saturday afternoon.
Lulu, a skeleton with skin on, sat alone on the side of the bed with a spoonful of rice in her hands. Face gaunt and sunken in, you could see every bone in her body. When she saw us enter her ward, she began to wail.
With tears streaming down her sunken cheeks, a cry rose from deep within her soul,
āJesuā¦Jesuā¦.Jesuā¦.Jesuā¦.Jesu!ā
For our fifteen minute visit this is all she would say, Jesus. She called out to Jesus.
Distraught, we sat at her side, rubbing her back, wiping her tears, and trying to comfort her.
A lady in the bed next to her said only one other person had visited that day.
Unable to comfort her, we turned to the Great Comforter.
We prayed over her for Godās peace, presence, and healing to be known to her.
We left with our hearts heavy and burdened with what we had just seen.
I can say, with all honesty, that those of us there were wrecked and laid awake at night praying for this girl who called out to Jesus. Unsure if she was going to make the weekend, we returned a few days later to the hospital ward.
Laying in bed was Lulu with fuller cheeks, clear eyes, and a smile on her lips.
Carrying a full conversation in English, her second language, she expressed how good it was to see us again. Sitting on the side of the bed with more strength, she remembered our visit on that life-altering Saturday.
Hope was reignited in her eyes.
In the following days we watched the Lord burden and direct people in the care of Lulu.
With her family, doctors from the hospital, Childrenās Cup medical team, and teachers at the care point, Luluās future is filled with love, support, and hope.
We continue to walk forward watching God orchestrate her care.
In her hopelessness Lulu heartās cry was Jesus.
Jesus answered her cry and made His Presence known.
āFrom the bottom of the pit,
O LORD,
I cried out to You,
And when I begged You to listen to my cry,
You heard.
You answered me and told me not to be afraid.
āYou came to my rescue, Lord, and saved my life.ā
Lamentations 3:55-58 GNT
Check out my Spring newsletter as I serve God and the body of Christ in Swaziland! The Lord has been up to some great things. It's amazing how much He loves us and takes care of us. So glad to be the daughter of the King of kings!
Siyabonga......one of my beloved kids from Makholweni Carepoint on one of our many weekly hospital runs.
ALL MY FOUNTAINS....
A great new song we sang at church here in Colorado. How amazing that our fountains are found in Him! Raining down on us Lord! Strong like a river Your love is running through....
Soak Him in!Ā
Isaiah 41:17-20 "The poor and homeless are desperate for water, their tongues parched and no water to be found. But I'm there to be found, I'm there for them, and I, God of Israel, will not leave them thirsty. I'll open up rivers for them on the barren hills, spoutĀ fountainsĀ in the valleys. I'll turn the baked-clay badlands into a cool pond, the waterless waste into splashing creeks. I'll plant the red cedar in that treeless wasteland, also acacia, myrtle, and olive. I'll place the cypress in the desert, with plenty of oaks and pines. Everyone will see this. No one can miss it ā unavoidable, indisputable evidence That I, God, personally did this. It's created and signed by The Holy of Israel.
Recent pictures ofĀ Asandi, a child we did a video on. Isn't she looking beautiful?
Check out her story: Ā Ā http://vimeo.com/21825753
Check out this story I wrote about a clinic I had at a rural carepoint. Deep love for these kids doesn't even began toĀ describe my feeling for them. Yet, He loves themĀ extravagantlyĀ and provides for them..... the Father to the fatherless. Ā
Children's Cup
ā(from our missionary Jessie Bohannon) It was a picturesque African landscape. Rolling mountains with contrasting patches of green grass and thorn bushes growing in the rich red African soil. The sky was dark with clouds, rain heavily misting over a thirsty land, howling wind slicing into every corner. And beautiful African children, walking 45 minutes up the mountain from school to receive a warm meal to fill their hungry tummies. They came up in small groups huddled around one another, their tattered clothes pulled up around their necks, arms wrapped around their chests in an attempt to keep warm and ward off the rain. Most barefoot, they slid around finding footing in the slick red mud as they climbed up to the carepoint ā a refuge of warm food, dry shelter, and loving people who would care for them. We, the Childrenās Cup Medical team, also made our journey that day driving through the rolling mountains and misting rain to visit these beloved children in one of the most remote Swaziland Childrenās Cup locations. Our simple mobile clinic was set up in the classroom. Boxes filled with medical supplies were set out, the medicine packaged ready to be given to those coming through clinic. In the corner two chairs and a table were placed for the nurse and children to talk about their coughs, stomach aches, and ringworm. Seeking warmth we watched as the children carried their steaming bowls of rice to dry and warm places. The classroom soon filled with the sound of coughing children. The children waited for clinic in wet clothes, their bodies shivering at an attempt to create some warmth. We were moved with compassion for the children and desired to do all we could to help them. One of the simplest yet impactful medications we hand out in clinic is Tylenol. You see, Tylenol is an easy commodity found in every American bathroom cabinet or is as close as the local corner drug store. Not so in Swaziland. With cost of living many times covering only basic daily necessities, having something like Tylenol in the house can become a luxury. Many parents and their children will endure headache, fever, and pain from lack of availability of Tylenol. Knowing we didnāt have enough Tylenol packed on this rainy clinic day for everyone, yet knowing the desperate need, we gave it freely, asking the Lord to multiply our medicine for these children. We saw all the children who came that day, and every child received the medicine they needed. God truly provides all our needs! When we put our concerns and trust in the Lord the miraculous happens. It is only by dependency on Him that He can make an impact through us in ways we donāt realize! I will say of the LORD He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust. Psalms 91:2
This is so true.....
yet I believe these women are richer than you think......
YOU'RE BLESSED... when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.
YOU'RE BLESSED... when you feel you've lostĀ what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you.
YOU'RE BLESSED...Ā when you're content with just who you are āno more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought.
YOU'RE BLESSED...Ā when you've worked up a good appetite for God. He's food and drink in the best meal you'll ever eat.
YOU'RE BLESSED...Ā when you care. At the moment of being 'care-full,' you find yourselves cared for.
YOU'RE BLESSED...Ā when you get your inside world āyour mind and heartā put right. Then you can see God in the outside world.
YOU'RE BLESSED...Ā when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That's when you discover who you really are, and your place in God's family.
YOU'RE BLESSED...Ā when your commitment to God provokes persecution. The persecution drives you even deeper into God's kingdom.
MATTHEW 5:3-10 The Message