Tomorrow, you’ll meet Pastor Walter in my next video blog. Before posting it, I wanted you to have some background about this man and his ministry. Seth Barnes described Pastor Walter like this:

Swaziland is the country where people die faster than anywhere else in the world – shockingly, the average Swazi doesn’t ever see 30 years of age. In the middle of it lives Pastor Walter. I first met Pastor Walter three years ago during a large outreach in Swaziland. He was the one pastor who, realizing that something had to be done about his country’s horrific HIV/AIDS problem, stepped up and helped out.

Living in a two room house with his family of six, Walter was troubled by all the pain that he saw going on around him. He knew that there were about 600 children that were going hungry in the area surrounding his church and he knew many would starve as their parents died from AIDS. He had preached about James 1:27 (true religion is to help widows and orphans in their distress), but then God said to him, “What are you going to do about it?”

Walter began organizing the last remaining pillar of society – the grandmothers. “Let’s feed our children,” he told them. They purchased eight large black kettles and began to boil a pot of corn meal mash every day for the kids. He did all this without any white man helping him to organize it and without any outside source of funds.

You can read the whole post on Seth’s blog. Walter is a man of dreams and a man of action. Much of the ministry you’ve seen in my video blogs is happening because of Pastor Walter and his church. Tomorrow, Walter will tell you in his own words about two families his church ministers to.