Author: Adventures

Here are some pictures from the past week:   Always finding a beautiful view. Caroline and Katelin spent some time in the preschool room teaching songs and playing games. We filled up so many wheel barrels full of dirt to fill holes around the care point.  Grace learned how to make popcorn over the stove this week– she did great!  Annie and Dani patiently waiting for the popcorn. The popcorn did not disappoint! All the smiles and thumbs up for popcorn!  We painted the bathroom at the care point a beautiful lime green. Most of the girls came home looking like...

Well yall. It’s been two weeks today, and we’ve got two more to go. God’s love has already immeasurably surrounded us. We have met many incredible people and have made outstanding relationships. The laughter of the team has filled the hallways of our team house and with all these experiences, the enemy is still bound to throw hardships and doubts our way.               Coming onto this trip many of us were expecting big things. And the Lord has shown us huge things, but in different way than we could have...

This Monday the team went to a ministry debrief at the AIM offices in Manzini. We learned about the work that is being done in Swaziland. First, some statistics, the population of Swaziland is 1.3 million and 45% of that is under 18. Life expectancy is only 51 years, 69% under poverty line and unemployment is over 40%. In a lot of cases one person’s working salary supports 13 people. AIM has created Care points to help aid in this area as to come along side the community and help them as they support their families. Care points provide 2 meals a day,  it also has a formal...