Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Africa just got cool



wow i dont even know where to start!!!

on tuesday we did the same ol prayer group with a side of break out groups with some cool africans on top. but the highlight was going to an orphanage that is sponsored by children of the nations. it was just so rad cause there was couple that had basically over 30 kids that they are raising as their own. we went and the kids sang us a song and then showed us all around the farm. the farm of course isnt like farms we would have here, it was a little african farm with wierd looking ducks and really really cute puppies and these kids that would have nowhere, and by all rights should have nothing (i mean they are sinners too right) but GOD's grace is huge, and he has caused these people to care and love them to the point of making these kids genuinely happy. Christ just seems to be everywhere in these places, and i cant help to want to be a part of it. i could totally easily

after that experience we went to have dinner at the chin chens. i think i might need to make that a whole nother post, cause i need to rant a little.

But Yesterday, Yesterdy is really what hit me. i mean dont get me wrong, the whole emotionally disturbed aspect is just lost on me. to be exteremly sad because someone doesnt have an ipod just isnt gonna happen to this guy. We got to walk to a village with a lady who used to help out around Jennys house (see rant for more on this). her name was Caroline, and while once in a while uzoongu (honkeys) do come to the village, they usually just appear out of a car. well, here in Malawi only a very very few have cars, so people walk miles and miles to get to work (they are very lucky if they do have work to go to. so me and Cory talked jenny into letting us walk to Caroline's home with her. she was stoked to have us, and boy was it cool. i mean i have seen third world, and to be honest there are little squatters camps in the states that are as poor as these people, but the contentment and fun these people seem to have was really cool. i couldnt help picturing Jesus walking around this village with little children following him (as they were us). once we got to Carolines house, which was in the heart of the village, we got to meet her husband and four children along with the other 3 children they take care of. we sat in thier living room and spoke kind words for a while, got the grand tour, and then that was enough of that, the kids took us outside to the little yard to play. they taught us a game with a rock, and i taught them pizza cutter. it was pretty cool. about that time i started asking caroline how she straps her baby to her back so well, and she taught me and then carol and jenny told her that becca is pregnant and we have a baby. at that point she was like, lets go get you one of these things. so we walked to the little market and got to really enjoy the village a little more and see what it is like. the whole time we were walking around i was thinking that this is the kind of situation that Jesus was in as he walked through the villages preaching. we got to buy caroline a new baby carrier and some food. we want to buy her a chicken for her family really bad, but you have to go far to buy a chicken. that was really the trip that will cahnge my thought for a long long time.

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