Wow!! I really need to get better at this blog thing....I can't believe the last one I wrote was in March!! Sorry everyone! I'll give you a short update on what's going on in my life now.
I am no longer in Uganda. I left on July 2nd and flew to South Africa where I am completing my bible college internship with Emmanuel Press which is a ministry that does a correspondence discipleship program in prisons, schools and communities in many countries around the world. My lovely hosts have also given me the opportunity to spend the past two weeks doing a short term missions trip with a local organization called Hands at Work. This organization comes alongside local woman to empower them and give them the resources to help the poorest of the poor children in their communities by providing meals, education and basic healthcare.
I am no longer in Uganda. I left on July 2nd and flew to South Africa where I am completing my bible college internship with Emmanuel Press which is a ministry that does a correspondence discipleship program in prisons, schools and communities in many countries around the world. My lovely hosts have also given me the opportunity to spend the past two weeks doing a short term missions trip with a local organization called Hands at Work. This organization comes alongside local woman to empower them and give them the resources to help the poorest of the poor children in their communities by providing meals, education and basic healthcare.
I realize I have so much to catch you up on but here are some thoughts from the past few weeks.
Tonight as I relax after a very busy two weeks serving
alongside Hands at Work my heart is troubled with the realization that the
children that I visited in the communities of South Africa are spending another
cold night alone. Many of these children that I met come from very terrible
families, families where love is held back and in a sense is rationed as perishable
substance, families where something that is considered as a precious gift to
you and I is left hungry in the corner of a one room house with tear streaked
cheeks, families where one meal a day is hard to come by, families where
fathers are not present and when they are bring vial abuse to the ones they
were meant to protect.
These children are our children. As they experience another
cold night alone in a community in the middle of Africa it is our job to stand
up and reach out our hand of help, it is our job to fall to our knees and pray
for their protection and healing, it is our job to not forget, it is our job to
not turn our head in fear but rather stand square to the challenge of raising
the next generation of Africa!
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Are you ready for the challenge?
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