Join me for a Christmas Timbali party!

~Starting at 6:30 pm.

~On Wednesday, 19, 2012

~At the Wilcox Center.

~Timbali crafts will be for sale, helping support women in Swaziland and enable them to take care of their families.

~Michaela Horton will also give a short presentation about her trip at 7:00 pm.

We are home and almost caught up on sleep! Thank you so much for your prayers!

7 Christmas parties down, 3 more to go!!!

   This week has been very busy, as we have been getting ready for Christmas parties for all 10 carepoints! We did the first three on Friday and Saturday which made for very busy days! Three more to come next weekend!

Nombali and I moving the fresh beef from the trash bag to another container. :)

   Today for the first time in a while I was able to sit down and process everything that has happened recently and realized I only have two more weeks left. This brought on so many different thoughts and feelings to my mind of great sadness, excitement and prayer. As my time is drawing to a close here, I am wondering and praying about what will happen next, where in Africa will I end up and when? But as I was reading Esther this morning, I realized she had total faith in her God even when her future was uncertain. She readily obeyed Mordecai and walked by faith during trying times. So as I finish up in Swaziland, I look forward in anticipation to what God has in store for me.

This weekend we were blessed with a two day get away to St. Lucia, South Africa. We got to sit out on the beach and be refreshed by God's overwhlemingly beautiful creation, the beach.

 

 The sunrise at five in the morning.

 Monkeys everwhere!

 Uh-Oh :)

Carrying on the family tradition!

Hippos in the yard last night!

 

Pictures from the last week....

Our greeting party at the team house :)

One cool girl!

Going back home after a long day of work.

Havesting with the Joyela and Mahlabeneni gogos!

Hanging out with the girls at Mahogany.

Oct. 25

Today Sanele, Nombali and I went to the Mahlabeneni carepoint. While they were working with the older children I sat and played with the younger ones. It was a cool, rainy day. One little boy came into the building sobbing and soaked; his face was muddy from where he had fallen in the dirt, so I scooped him up and cuddled him against me under my jacket. His shivering stopped and he fell fast asleep.

It was the perfect opportunity to pray for this little boy and his family; his mom or gogo out working and providing a shelter for him and his siblings, his sister who was not much older than he and for his future, no matter how short or long it might be. It was so amazing being able to poor into this little boy’s life and love on him. I thank God so much that I have two parents, I have warm clothes, food three times a day and always have a weather-proof house to sleep in unlike this handsome little boy who probably has never even slept in a bed before.