Visiting Orphans and Prisoners

Today was a sad day for some of our team members who visited a young mother with AIDS who sent her infants with a friend to FOMCO Orphan Care Center for their daily meal. Her small house nearby has only a partial roof with gaping holes where the rain falls down in puddles. And only a dirt floor where she and her two little girls must sleep with a simple blanket. It rained today and she's too sick to move, and it was just awful. Bob, who found her, didn't know what to do for her. No medicine, only food. How can a family live in a hut with no roof and sleep on a wet muddy floor? Hearing Bob tell the story made me cry...

In the afternoon, the team visited the prisoners to encourage them. I'll leave it to another to tell that story.

Tomorrow we're going out to check on one of the village wells tomorrow. That should be a joyful trip to meet villagers who now have fresh clean water in their village when before there was none.

Team News: I don't feel sick anymore, but Robby now has a fever. We all are still going strong. Chappy has been shopping for our staff cook, Taxan, and making good recipe suggestions. We have really been eating well, lots of greens, and balanced diet. Stacy has taken the lead in distributing school supplies, photo gifts, yarn donations (from Libby and Clarissa) and doing great with all the kids. Bob and Don participated with me today in the PACCT Training event and were very well received. Don and Sarah will leave tomorrow for Lilongwe and JoBurg for other ministry tasks in South Africa. The rest of us will visit the village of Zowe to check on a new CitiHope well.

P.S. Libby, we delivered your yarn and school supplies to the orphans and their guardians at FOMCO today. They each were so eager to get their share and it made them so happy to receive this valued donation. Thank you!

Liberation Spirituality: Henri Nouwen and Gustavo Gutierrez in Dialogue

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First Generation Lambs Club Reunion

Fifteen of us gathered Saturday night at the Lambs Club for a 35 th year reunion of those who helped start the Lamb’s Church in Times Square in the mid to late 1970’s, including: Rev. Paul S. Moore , Founder of the Lamb’s Church of the Nazarene, and his wife, Tamara Dr. Michael J. Christensen , charter member and former associate pastor, and his wife Dr. Rebecca Laird Fr. William (BJ) Webe r, former Associate Pastor and Director of the Lamb’s Residency, and his wife Sheila who lived at the Lamb’s Jim and Dustee Hullinger, who were on staff together and made the Lamb’s their home for over 25 years Effie Canepa , who was the church pianist under 3 pastors, and her husband Peter Shirley Close, who attended the Lamb’s in the late 1970’s while studying, performing and teaching music and voice Carl "Chappy" Valente , former associate pastor Rev. Bob DiQuatto , lead singer of the Church’s “Manhattan Project” and staff member of the Lamb’s, and his son Jason Rev. Gab...

Let the River Flow: Why WorldHope Corps digs village wells

Sunday Sermon at the The Water's Edge in OB , San Diego, CA. "Woman at the Well" (John 4:7-15) When you think about the gospel story of the Samaritan woman with Jesus at Jacob’s well, I’d like you to picture this Woman at a similar well in northern Malawi. Sitting and talking with Pastor Dennis Singini about water. Her name is Nyang'oma, which means "drum." Her Christian name is Mary Botha. She is 85 years old and lives in a village in the Kampenda area of Northern Malawi. She has cared for 11 children, two of whom have died. And her husband has died. When Dennis and I first met Mary in 2008, her village did not have a deep well or access to clean water. Nor did the six surrounding villages with over 1,500 people. Women and children had to drink with animals from shallow seasonal wells or walk about of 5km away to drink from the closest stream. Sometimes they would get sick and complain of stomach aches. Cholera and dysentery were widespread, and m...

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