We need prayer!

This week for family ministry we all went to a care point that two of my team mates, Ashley and Lindsey, teach at. We did a fun day for all the kids and ladies there. We had face painting, balloons, bubbles, cookies, relay races, games, some of my team mates also did a drama and lesson from the bible. It was great and I think all the kids definitely enjoyed it more than we did.

Two days ago I went to church in Timbutini (also the carepoint where I teach) It was a really great and refreshing service. Dennis, a missionary living here from America, gave a sermon. His sermon was so good and just what I needed. It’s so easy to become drained while on the mission field in another country, mostly because they have entirely different theology than we do, and they don’t speak english… sure there’s a translator but most the time they’re yelling over each other and it’s hard to understand them. His sermon was mainly for the youth. At one point in his sermon he was talking about how the Lord just really spoke to him about the children in Timbutini. Every Sunday the church is packed, mostly with kids.The kids continue to come to church because at church they feel loved. He was telling us how God told him that He was busy raising up these children to be the leaders of Swaziland. That even though some people look at particular situations in Swaziland and just say, “Hey, that is just how Swazi is, it’s never going to change.” or, “That’s just how that person is, they’re never going to change.” The Lord looks upon His children with eyes of potential of what we can become. He doesn’t look at us as what we’re now, but what He will make us. He just encouraged the church that the Lord is looking at all of them with potential and is planning great things.

Please continue to pray for the Kingdom of Swaziland. Pray that the Lord truly would be busy raising up men and women to save their own country that is commiting suicide. Pray that the people would know that this whole Christian thing, church thing, God thing would be so much more than a religion. Pray that it would become real to them, it would become something that could and will save their lives. Pray that they would long to know God and live a life getting to know Him. Why am I only telling you to pray for Swaziland? The whole world needs this prayer. I need this prayer.

* This morning before I came to the internet, I was informed that the public transportation in Manzini was on strike. The employers at a factory in a nearby city went on strike a few weeks ago because they were not being payed fairly. Instead of fixing the problem, the factory just fired all the people. And because all these people are unemployed, several kumbies (the public transportation) have lost a lot of business because they’re no longer going to work. In a joint effort to have the people rehired with better pay, all the public transportation has gone on strike and are refusing to take anyone anywhere. This is in efforts to get the government’s attention, especially the King’s. Please pray about this situation. If this problem doesn’t become fixed soon we will run into bigger problems that we do not want to face. Please pray that God would hear our concern and reign over this situation.