Posted by Amanda
Friday, August 13, 2010
Landed safely!
How lovely are Whit and Vanessa after 36 hours of traveling?! We JUST landed, haven't debarked! We are all safe with just a handful of sniffles! Thank you for all your love, support and prayers!!
Posted by Amanda
Posted by Amanda
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Eva: The Lord loves the little children
Eva here! Here is a recap:
Sunday: The last few days have been interesting. We have seen the Ministry of Hope's Crisis Nursery. We visited on Saturday and part of the church service we walked over to the nursery again and actively live out what it states in Luke 18:15-17 when Jesus talks about the little children. :) I think that's accurate to say that the Kingdom of God is through the children's eyes.
Tuesday: Today was pretty epic. We went back to Muzu to show respect to the Chief and our promise to present them with the Bridgeway Women's Ministry dresses. They were made out of simple pillowcases, and yet so much love and detail was put into each dress. That was great to see the smiling faces.
Our day was long. We brought with us our friends and guides Blessing and Richard. They are African Bible College students and they helped interpret for us with the kids and the chief. So it was worth it and we have a lot of photos and stories to bring back. :)
Tomorrow we head to Muzu again.
The team passing out dresses
Girls in line: :)
Tionana!
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Sunday: The last few days have been interesting. We have seen the Ministry of Hope's Crisis Nursery. We visited on Saturday and part of the church service we walked over to the nursery again and actively live out what it states in Luke 18:15-17 when Jesus talks about the little children. :) I think that's accurate to say that the Kingdom of God is through the children's eyes.
Tuesday: Today was pretty epic. We went back to Muzu to show respect to the Chief and our promise to present them with the Bridgeway Women's Ministry dresses. They were made out of simple pillowcases, and yet so much love and detail was put into each dress. That was great to see the smiling faces.
Our day was long. We brought with us our friends and guides Blessing and Richard. They are African Bible College students and they helped interpret for us with the kids and the chief. So it was worth it and we have a lot of photos and stories to bring back. :)
Tomorrow we head to Muzu again.
The team passing out dresses
Girls in line: :)
Tionana!
- Posted by Eva :) using BlogPress from my iPhone
Location:Malawi
Eva: The Lord loves the little children
Eva here! Here is a recap:
Sunday: The last few days have been interesting. We have seen the Ministry of Hope's Crisis Nursery. We visited on Saturday and part of the church service we walked over to the nursery again and actively live out what it states in Luke 18:15-17 when Jesus talks about the little children. :) I think that's accurate to say that the Kingdom of God is through the children's eyes.
Tuesday: Today was pretty epic. We went back to Muzu to show respect to the Chief and our promise to present them with the Bridgeway Women's Ministry dresses. They were made out of simple pillowcases, and yet so much love and detail was put into each dress. That was great to see the smiling faces.
Our day was long. We brought with us our friends and guides Blessing and Richard. They are African Bible College students and they helped interpret for us with the kids and the chief. So it was worth it and we have a lot of photos and stories to bring back. :)
Tomorrow we head to Muzu again.
The team passing out dresses
Girls in line: :)
Tionana!
- Posted by Eva :) using BlogPress from my iPhone
Sunday: The last few days have been interesting. We have seen the Ministry of Hope's Crisis Nursery. We visited on Saturday and part of the church service we walked over to the nursery again and actively live out what it states in Luke 18:15-17 when Jesus talks about the little children. :) I think that's accurate to say that the Kingdom of God is through the children's eyes.
Tuesday: Today was pretty epic. We went back to Muzu to show respect to the Chief and our promise to present them with the Bridgeway Women's Ministry dresses. They were made out of simple pillowcases, and yet so much love and detail was put into each dress. That was great to see the smiling faces.
Our day was long. We brought with us our friends and guides Blessing and Richard. They are African Bible College students and they helped interpret for us with the kids and the chief. So it was worth it and we have a lot of photos and stories to bring back. :)
Tomorrow we head to Muzu again.
The team passing out dresses
Girls in line: :)
Tionana!
- Posted by Eva :) using BlogPress from my iPhone
Location:Malawi
Monday, August 9, 2010
Blessings
It's hard to believe our visit here in Africa is coming to an end. The bore hole is FINISHED!! It was so amazing to watch the faces of the children light up when they saw the clean water easily accessible to them. They immediately began to take buckets back to their village. It was so awesome to see.
We also went to the Crisis Nursery to hold tiny little babies. They were just so precious. I was instantly attached. I held little Martha. She kept crossing her cute little fingers. I of course had to take a picture of it. She was so content and happy. But she was fighting sleep the whole time I was holding her.
The kids are so cute! I just want to pack them in my suitcase and take them home with me. But alas, I cannot. Their eyes just light up when they see us coming. Smiles are continually on their little faces. I wish my arms were big enough to hug them all at the same time.
I am having a blast here. We've been told that Malawi is the warm hub of Africa. I can agree with that. Just passing by people we've received genuine warm smiles and waves.
Tionanna!
-Vanessa
We also went to the Crisis Nursery to hold tiny little babies. They were just so precious. I was instantly attached. I held little Martha. She kept crossing her cute little fingers. I of course had to take a picture of it. She was so content and happy. But she was fighting sleep the whole time I was holding her.
The kids are so cute! I just want to pack them in my suitcase and take them home with me. But alas, I cannot. Their eyes just light up when they see us coming. Smiles are continually on their little faces. I wish my arms were big enough to hug them all at the same time.
I am having a blast here. We've been told that Malawi is the warm hub of Africa. I can agree with that. Just passing by people we've received genuine warm smiles and waves.
Tionanna!
-Vanessa
Location:M1,Lilongwe,Malawi
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Amazing grace....
We just got back from tea at Dr. Lungu's house. Wow... What an amazing man! His outlook on life has more joy, love, and respect than all of America combined. I had my first break down moment that I was fearful of. I lift him up to the Lord and pray for all of his future endeavors in COTN Malawi! He is deffinitly a man I would like to keep in contact with for my future Malawi visits! This trip has already taught me so much about how I live my life!
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Location:Malawi
This morning we went to Flood Malawi Church. Pastor Sean was amazing!!! So electric and alive! He delivered a sermon on sight and how blindly we look at the world! Being here in Malawi has really opened my eyes on how I look at my world at home. I hope to have a more open outlook on faith and happiness.
We came back and did laundry African style :) hand wash baby!!!
We were invited to tea with the COTN director! Pretty cool! So we'll head out to that in a couple hours!
Hope you are all well back home and we miss you like crazy!!!!
Whit
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We came back and did laundry African style :) hand wash baby!!!
We were invited to tea with the COTN director! Pretty cool! So we'll head out to that in a couple hours!
Hope you are all well back home and we miss you like crazy!!!!
Whit
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Location:Malawi
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Clean Water!!!!!!!!
Hey everyone!
We just got back from spending all day at Muzu village! They now have a complete working bore hole!!!! It's amazing how that is so easy for us to get clean water but for them us coming and fixing this for is a God send. We got to meet the chief...he had the best hot pink sweatshirt!!! I wanted to trade with him ;) A little boy named George came up to Brett Jake and I and introduced himself and said thank you for doing this... It was a miracle for there village. Only God can make that happen! It was a really emotional day today. We also got to tour the whole village. Brett brought bubbles and the kids LOVED IT!!! It was so cute!! All of them running around trying to catch them! Brett and I had a great talking with Blessings, a Beacon of Hope employee(don't let that make him seem less special... He is amazing!), about creating a farm for Muzu. This would support the village with food and a selling product. We are so excited to get started with this as soon as we get back from the states! We are looking forward to making this our focus for future visits! So if you have it on your heart to be a part of this start praying and talk to me! I miss all of u so so so so so much!
Whit
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We just got back from spending all day at Muzu village! They now have a complete working bore hole!!!! It's amazing how that is so easy for us to get clean water but for them us coming and fixing this for is a God send. We got to meet the chief...he had the best hot pink sweatshirt!!! I wanted to trade with him ;) A little boy named George came up to Brett Jake and I and introduced himself and said thank you for doing this... It was a miracle for there village. Only God can make that happen! It was a really emotional day today. We also got to tour the whole village. Brett brought bubbles and the kids LOVED IT!!! It was so cute!! All of them running around trying to catch them! Brett and I had a great talking with Blessings, a Beacon of Hope employee(don't let that make him seem less special... He is amazing!), about creating a farm for Muzu. This would support the village with food and a selling product. We are so excited to get started with this as soon as we get back from the states! We are looking forward to making this our focus for future visits! So if you have it on your heart to be a part of this start praying and talk to me! I miss all of u so so so so so much!
Whit
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Location:Chayamba,Lilongwe,Malawi
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