Raising up a godly army!

           He shouldn’t have made it. In medical or worldly terms, he was dying and everything was against him surviving. Both his mother and father died recently and grandmom brought him to us because she knew she was fighting a losing battle with an inability to afford medical care/medications and food. He was dying.

            In the raw, uncontrolled setting of Mozambique, this is the reality of life for so many vulnerable children. We can no longer rely on our state-of-the-art children’s hospitals with the most knowledgeable specialists and groundbreaking drugs, and we can no longer rely on a disease free environment of the best hygienic standards. In the Western world there are so many other options we can lean on, worldly wisdom; but in Mozambique there is no choice but to wait on God expectantly – we are desperate for a breakthrough and to see God’s love for His children expressed in a tangible way! In God’s eyes, this was the perfect opportunity for a miracle.

            One week later here is that very same baby. A glimmer of hope, and life is now present in his eyes. A very tangible expression of God’s un-abandoned love for his children. And then below, 6 months on, restored, filled with the love and joy of our heavenly Father, health and strength & cheekiness running through every cell of his beautiful body…a testimony to God’s faithfulness. This same child is now 6 years old and thriving…this is the absolute privilege that we have the opportunity to take part in. This is why we have an insatiable passion to return to such a desperate place, because it’s in these places where God’s faithfulness and absolute love is tangible and shines brightest. It's like the night sky, its' glorious expanse seems limitless in the African vastness. We do get glimpses of God's glory like this in the western world, but sadly so many put it down to the science, the knowledge, the technology and not God’s absolute love working through all these methods. We are so amazingly blessed to be able to return to such a place and see the testimonies of His love living on, and knowing that God is going to keep doing it again because He loves His children so very much.

This child is one of so many that we have had and will have the privilege of caring for and sewing the love of God into…these are the next generation, the history makers of Mozambique, and we have the privilege of giving them the opportunities they may have never had and raising up a godly army in Mozambique!

            We leave in 1 week and as you can see we’re on fire to see God in every opportunity. Thank you for travelling on this life-changing journey with us. Maybe we can encourage you to come out and visit and experience our loving heavenly Father in a way like never before.

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.

ISAIAH 61: 1-3

If you desire to see our contact information you can find it below on our first blog posting...e-mail address, skype information, & facebook information are all listed. A mailing address will be set up on our arrival into South Africa and then we will post that address on our blog.

Blessings and so much love from us,

Matthew & Sheri