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Overwhelming Statistics
15,000 Africans die everyday from preventable diseases
Pastor Rob told us that when he preached several weeks ago. I know some of those people. Baby Diamond who died from AIDS, Charles’ sister who we sat with and prayed for just days before AIDS took her. Another young mother leaving two more orphans. Add them to the 1.1 million orphans already in Kenya.
Overwhelming statistics. Pastor Rob asked us that day how could we accept those statistics if we say our Nation is a Nation that believes in justice? For many years I didn’t care to know what was happening in the world. I didn’t ask. I was busy with my own live. Distracted by the many things we so easily get distracted with. Then I went to Africa. I saw. I held the children. I sat with the moms in the slum who were infected and who held on their lap a small child also infected with HIV/AIDS.
My prayer – that I never again become so distracted that I forget to care. I pray that I remember. I pray that I can answer God’s call to take care of the orphans, the widows. That I remember to help the poor. When I am overwhelmed by the magnitude of the problem and know that I am so limited in my abilities I remember what Mother Teresa said, “if you can’t feed a 100 children, just feed one”. I work with an organization that is trying to save just one of the 15,000 Africans who die everyday from preventative diseases.
hope you have made it home safely, and can bask in the glory that was brought to our Father on your recent trip…
blessings!
alan
Hi Connie,
My trip to Kenya made a difference in my life and now I feel like I have a heart for the Kenya people. Being part of their lives for the short time I was there,sharing in their worship service and then part of your What If Campaign Connie to help stop the spread of aids. Being part of that ministry was awesome and Jesus was there in the mist of all it with us. To be part of the Widows and listen to their stories,some good and some heartbreaking. How they come together and help each other with what little they have and relying on their faith in God to sustain them. I was given a name as well as the rest of the team that was at the widows village. My name they gave me was Mun Gai(Man who prays from mountains) Don’t ask me how they come up with that,but I was very humbled. I was very blessed to have had this experience and its not over. I carry those memories and look forward to being part of another mission trip where I can be used in doing God’s work.
Chuck Coates