At the end of the day today, we stopped by the COTN feeding center and were absolutely blown away by what we saw. 100's of children danced and yelled all around us as we pulled into their compound and about 20 widows all dressed alike were singing in unison as well. Almost every person there had lost most of their family to Aids or Malaria and yet there was still joy. Not happy joy, but life changing Jesus joy that is too often missing in our lives.
We had just wrapped up another full day in the village and here at ABC and thought we were swinging by there for a quick stop. I remembered going to this feeding center 3 years ago and knew we were in for something special but not like this. Screaming and yelling all around us with kids holding our hands (3 or 4 at a time) and literally no room to walk because of the massive amounts of kids. It puts life in perspective when you see something like this. We complain about all kinds of frivolous junk on our side of the world and yet here you find joy in the simplest of things.
On a side note, when we pulled into Chimpapha Village I saw the widow I met last year. I honestly thought she was close to 200 years old last year, but there she was still going strong, pretty amazing!
I'm proud of our team and the change they are bringing! I'm proud because they are bothered by the things they are seeing and are doing something about it.
Speak Love, Act Love, Live Love.
Change the World
Paul
- Posted from the other side of the world
1 comment:
Awesome! Glad to hear and see all is going well and God is moving through all of you to show HIS GREAT LOVE!
Blessings and love,
Cindy Miller
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