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Before we arrived, these 95 children–orphans–had not eaten in 21 days. This video shares some of their stories and our ministry to them.

This weekend, we’re taking a retreat to Kruger National Park in South Africa. Check out this amazing video (not taken by me unfortunately) of the wildlife inside the park. Hopefully our trip won’t be THIS exciting.

Turn up the volume on this one too. Through our friendship with Pastor Temba, we visited a local community and helped rebuild the home of one of the widows who cares for orphaned kids. It was a powerful day, and over my shoulder in the video, you’ll see the beginnings of creating a new carepoint–a…

You’ll have to turn the volume up on this one because the camera microphone didn’t do a great job of picking up the sound.  Toward the end, you’ll see the interview I told you about in an earlier post. This is one of the many widows of Swaziland. Unbelievably, she told me she has gone…

Sorry to have not posted a video in a while. This is the first of three new ones I’ll put up over the next few days.

Thanks for all your posts everyone! It’s very encouraging for us to hear that you are praying for us and following our journey. It seems like we’re a little closer to you than 8,000 miles! The last few days we have started a carepoint from scratch. We have been ministering in a very poor area…

Today is Sunday morning and I am writing you from Manzini, Swaziland. The amount of death and destruction we have seen in this country is unreal. More and more, we are seeing the devastating effects of a country whose HIV infection rate is 46%. There are funerals everywhere and orphans by the hundreds in every…

There is so much going on each day, it’s hard to capture it in just 3 minutes of video. One of our goals as a family was to minister together as a family while we were in Swaziland. Each member of my family has found unique ways to connect with the Swazi people and children.…

After seven full days of ministry, we decided to take our families on a safari in a local game park in Swaizland. It was a needed break from the pace we’ve been going. Enjoy the video, and thank you all for your prayers over the past week.

Here are a few photos to go along with the video we’ve been posting from the last week.

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