Here are some pictures from our time in Swaziland. I’ll try to make it back online later in the week to post some more! Thanks for all your prayers and support. We’re beginning to feel the Lord’s refreshment and excitement again.
Swazi landscape.
Read the bottom…hilarious.
Me and a cutie.
Jess and Lins working with Beyond The Game, sponsored by the NFL.
Our hammock tree, only the best.
Our house in the evening.
Favorite mode of transport: back of a pick-up truck.
Lins showing the kids everywhere we’ve been and everywhere we’re going in the world.
Oh nothing, just slaughtering a goat.
Our bathrooms. Yuck. It’s always fun to be in the silver ones as someone walks down the road.
Natalie and Busisiwe, one of our friends at the Hope House, who died yesterday from TB and HIV. I don’t think we’ve processed her death yet.
The kids jumping for joy at the arrival of water (see my last blog.)
The fire I built for Team Time… kinda proud 🙂
Playing on the make-shift seesaw with some of the kids… it’s a log between tree branches.
Our hike up the mountain… one of our favorite escapes this month.
The view of Swazi from the top.
And last but not least, the cave paintings we found at the top of the mountain. Seriously insane.
More to come soon!
Awsome photos as usual. Nice fire. Goat stew? Glad to hear that you’re feeling somewhat refreshed. Love ya!
Dear Steph,
Thanking God for the refreshment He has poured over you and your team, and always thankful to hear from you and that your safe. Thank you, too, for giving me first-hand information on what’s going on in Swaziland and giving me the opportunity to pray specifically for the people there, as well as the opportunity to be involved in some way in supplying the water they need so desperately. We do take so much for granted here. I was listening to 89.7 on the radio today about a group of Christian business owners who formed “Swazi Relief.” They work together to personally bring relief (clothing, etc.) to the people in Swaziland. I was only able to listen to a portion of the program, but it was good to hear how God has placed it on their hearts to use their skills and proceeds in this way to bring hope and relief to God’s people there. And it all starts when people like you go there in person and see how things really are.
I was so sorry to hear about your friend Busisiwe. I know it makes your heart ache.
Keeping you in my prayers, as always. I think of you every day — at least every time I turn on the water faucet now, (which is way more often than I see a goat being slaughtered!)
“May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loves us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and work.” (2 Thess. 2:16-17)
With love,
Angela
Steph,
They will be in your heart and mind as you go to Thailand. You will miss Busiswe, but at least you two met and became friends. Some of those AIDs patients are so precious and have so much to share with us!!! Just think that you made a difference in one more life!! AND the water!! So much in so little time. Such poverty in the people, yet Swazi is so rich in beauty! The Lord has really used y’all there. Your photo’s are beautiful….of course I could have live without the goat one…..kind of made me want to hurl……now, is the belly bloated because of putrification or internal parasites!!???? MMMMMmmmmmmmm, delicious!
We will continue to lift you and your team before the Lord!
Love, Susan