Zambian children are casualties of the war against HIV/Aids. In fact, every 35 seconds, a child here becomes an AIDS orphan.This summer I will go and show the love of the Lord to these children and bring them and the people there the life saving message of Jesus Christ!
There I was standing on the unleveled ground eight
thousand miles away from home. I knew I was definitely not in Texas anymore. I
traded my family for a month with a group of forty radical teenagers determined
to make an eternal impact in the lives of Orphaned children, I traded my bed for a tent
in the middle of a field , yet I honestly can say that I do not count any of it
as sacrifice because the reward was so much greater. As I looked around I saw
the faces that I soon realized I would never forget. I spent one month serving
in the Chongwe Village of Zambia Africa with Every Orphans Hope, a ministry
dedicated to rescuing orphaned children who have been affected by the AIDS
epidemic in bringing the hope into the lives of orphans who have truly lost
everything.
As I
starred into the eyes of one of my babies,Wise, one of the six boys in my group of camp Hope, I
could not help but see the brokenness in such a young child’s eyes. But then it
hit me. We were from two completely different worlds with totally different
lives. I came from a fast paced world where if I ran out of bottled water I
could simply get in my car and buy a twenty-four pack. While, Wise would have
to walk two miles to a water pump for murky water that was not even safe to
drink. Thoughts raced through my mind I had yet to experience half of the
hardships that Wise had in his five years of living. However, regardless of the
differences in our backgrounds I was determined to love him and all of the other children as if my love wasunlimited. The whole reason why I was in Zambia in the first place was tosee this young boy grow and
come to the understanding that he was loved. I spent countless hours under that Zambian sun playing, singing, dancing, and teaching them about the Love of
their heavenly father.
Looking
back I will always hold one moment very closely to my heart as I was walking
around the village a few days after the camp was over, Wise had found me. He
ran and jumped into my arms, as ifhe became permanently attached to me. He gave me a
kiss on the cheek and whispered “Ni kukonda"which meant I love you. I then
realized that Wise had taught me that love was universal and even though I did
not speak Nyanja, or had been through the same circumstances, I knew that the
love of the father is whatconnected us. Itwas greaterthan and emotion or feeling, it was real.
This is why I am asking you to please pray for this trip to zambiaand purchase a shirt, so that children like wise would find hope in Jesus Christ,I know that God has amazing things in store for this summer and I want you to be apart of it!
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Thank you so much for taking the time to read about my heart for Zambia.
I'll be in Zambia from June 18 - July 9th
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James 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.