Work

The last couple of days we have been incredibly blessed to go and visit with many people. Yesterday we went and meet with people who were HIV positive, and heard there stories. One woman told us about when she found out in May of 2006, and how it affected those around her. Many of her friends and her parents disowned her. Her husband however went and got tested some time later and found out that he was positive as well. The two of them take their med's everyday together. They have become a light in the community because they are willing to share openly about the disease, and have become very involved in the counceling that the Hope center does. They have encouraged a number of people that they know to go and get tested so that they may get help as well. That was one of many stories that we heard yesterday from people who are living with HIV/AIDS.
Today we had the opportunity to go into some home of people who were displaced during the violence here back in Dec/Jan. They were afraid of what might happen to them so they fled their homes often not taking anything with them. They fled to an IDP(internally displaced persons) camp, and most stayed there at least one some even two months while waiting for things to cool down. While there the people we have been working with would go throughout the camps asking people if they were willing to go back, and if they were they would pay for the first couple of months of rent as well as food. It was done in such a way that the majority of people we talked to accepted Christ as a result of this action. It was amazing to see how God answered the prayers that we were praying from half way around the world; in such an incredible way here.
The last thing that I want to say in this post is that a couple of the families that we visited today also have children in the Bondeni Hope school. I asked them about child sponsorships, and they mentioned that their children were being sponsored by someone. They couldn't express enough how grateful they were that their children could go to school. I couldn't help but wonder who was sponsoring those children, and the excitement it brought to me to think that more than likely I know the person who is making such a difference in the lives of these families. Thank you for making a difference! We have been so encouraged to see first hand what a difference the Church has made from half a world away.

ASANTI SANA!!!! (THANK YOU VERY MUCH)