Back To The Blogging World

Wow, it's been a while since I've actually blogged.  There is so much to process each day that many days I feel like I could write a book (if I had enough energy at the end of the day)!  It's hard to know what to share & how much & when because so many life situations here are so delicate & I try to think through how I would feel about someone sharing about my family & friends with people I won't ever meet.  But with that said, I am going to continue blogging & will be making more time for it now that the busy couple of months are over!

From the beginning of May to the middle of August, 103 people came through Nsoko to serve in one way or another!  It was a blessing to get to serve alongside these teams & lead them as they blessed the people of Nsoko.  The teams were from all across the US, and from 10 years old to 67 years old, but came ready to allow God to use them to continue the work He has begun here in Nsoko!  Here are a few of my favorite moments from those times with teams:

~ watching high school kids from Colorado pray over every one of the 100 kids as they left the carepoint one day

~ hearing from a nurse about her friend just got diagnosed with a rare cancer in the US only to have her go on a home visit to follow up on one of our people & find out it was the same type of cancer

~ seeing a older woman read the Bible with her sponsored child & then go play ball with a young boy

~ watching the teams help people in the community carry water back to their homesteads

~ seeing a couple who had left their 3 children back in the US meet their sponsored child with tears in their eyes

~ laying on the top of the shipping container with a few people from California while looking at the stars & talking about how big God is (and how little we know about astronomy)

~ watching Swazis & Americans work alongside of each other to build a carepoint, a house, a couple of playgrounds, and a church

~ seeing adult team members go sit on the floor with the kids at church

~ hearing the ministry partners share about how much they have grown serving alongside people who know the Bible & aren't afraid to quote it while on home visits

~ seeing a compassionate mother cry as she hears about the loss of a child in the community

~ watching a high school girl play the guitar & teach English worship songs to a 14 year old blind Swazi boy 

~ seeing people get Bibles for the first time & God awaken their hearts to His Word

~ watching teams pray over the ministry partners

~ seeing God build church partnerships & be glorified as people come together to worship Him

~ seeing a pastor's wife with tears in her eyes as a team gives her a study Bible for her husband (who works full time an hour and a half away from the church he pastors)

~ hiking off trail through the African bush early one morning with a team

~ watching people step out of their comfort zones to serve in ways that they wouldn't normally serve to reach the people God has called them to serve

There are so many more, but I praise God for the people He brought through Nsoko this summer & am praying that they each continue to pray for the people that God placed on their heart & in their lives while they were here!