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Life in Eswatini!!

This week has been really sweet! We went to more care points and continued building relationships with the gogos and the kiddos. Gogos are the older women who are hard working and loyal. The word gogo literally means Grandma in Siswati. They come to the care point and cook everyday for the kids so that they will have known set meals to eat. This week we went on many different house visits where we prayed for the families, read scripture, and talked to them! We helped one of the families take out the beans from around 1000 pods. It was awesome getting to do that while getting to know the family. Their prayer request was that the Lord would continue to provide for them as they continued to try to financially support their kid’s education. In Eswatini, families pay for any grade after primary school. It is really cool to see the mindset shift here about education versus in the United States. I feel like education is taken for granted in the USA and often kids dread going to school. But here, the kiddos are longing to go to school and to learn. They are willing to wake up many hours in advance in order to walk miles and miles to school. Some kiddos even walk to South Africa, past the mountain range, so they can get a better education. We had the opportunity on Friday to go to one of the schools in Eswatini. We were able to be part of their chapel time! It was eye opening and beautiful! Each grade came up to the front and sang a song about Jesus. The youngest grade were told a scripture and they would have to recite it, in English! The kids had so much excitement in their voices as they were singing! They danced and sang without care or fear; they loved being there in THAT moment!  I learned that these kids learn every subject in English! This helps explain how some of these kiddos have such strong English! After all of the grades sang their songs, we sang them one of our songs- “Great are you Lord” and shared the Gospel!

 

I’ve learned that in Africa, time moves a lot slower. It’s not a fast paced life style. People are not in a rush to get to the next thing in life but they are fully present in the now! This has been so beautiful for me to see and experience because in the United States it’s always go-go-go. 

 

We have had opportunities to help in the clinic by packaging medicine and cream to get ready for an outreach event this upcoming week. We also finished building the fence we started last week at one of the care points to help keep the animals out. At that same care point, we helped remove weeds that were swarming the playground. Now the kiddos are run around the playground without having to trip or move around the weeds. It’s been so sweet building relationships with these communities throughout Eswatini. 

 

Please keep praying for the people here to intentionally and fully know who the Lord is and the Gospel. Please also pray for us to continue to be uncomfortable and that we can die to ourselves and our desires so we can fully serve the people of Eswatini, the Lord and our team. 

2 Comments

  1. Sarah! I love your heart for the kiddos here. Your love for them really radiates through your smile. I am blessed to know you and have you as apart of my Squad. Love you & Hugs.

  2. This seems to be an awesome program and I know my granddaughter Sarah Heinze has grown and benefited greatly

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