Thursday, December 18, 2008

Busy Day

Yesterday was a busy but wonderful day. We traveled 300 KM visited 2 Nazarene Clinics, Schools, & Churches, checked out 2 possible hotels for teams to stay, visited and spoke to a VBS, stopped at a home in the Bush. The Nurse that was with us wanted us to see where she lived. There we found a group of Ladies in Prayer and Fasting. They began on Sunday and would continue through today. We knew 2 of the Ladies and were so excited to see that Prayer and Fasting is still apart of the Church here.

Then the highlight of the day was to share Christmas with Pastor Maseko and his family. The 5 children ages 6 - 20all cried when they received their gift. The gifts were not much but to them it was a great thing. Then when they saw the food and remarked they were trying to save a little something so they would have some food to eat for Christmas, our hearts broke. Please pray for Rev. Maseko, his wife Thoko and their children. We thank God for your part in this giving. Without your financial support and your prayers this would not have been possible. I think of the song, "Little is much, when God is in it." How we have seen this over and over in so many ways.

Today was again exciting as we spent a couple of hours with Bob & Shirley Aldrich at RFM stamping linens for the hospital. These have been sent by people like you from all over the USA and they needed to have the hospital stamp on them. (RFM has no money to hire someone to do this so these have been sitting in the storeroom for some time) We stamped linens from at least 50 boxes. This will now eliminate the patients from having to bring in their own bedding. Again the words, "Little is much, when God is in it." There is more to be stamped so we will volunteer a couple of hours here and there until the job is finished.

This will help you know just a little of the work we are involved with. It is exciting and rewarding to know someone is being helped with the giving of God's people (like you) around the world.

1 comment:

Margaret Glyn said...

What an exciting and blessed report! We love hearing about your activities. I am still house-bound but am making progress--hope to attend church and part of S.S.--Janis is to sing! Love, MGD