swaziland

10/11,12/2010
So this is Africa! After my third trip on a plane, the second one was also on this trip, we landed in Joburg, South Africa.along with our leaders Dave and Jean Ohlerking and Candy Mitchell. In Joburg we met the other member of our team Julie Rich and our Missionary host .Jerry and Karen Holte. We all gather up our
suitcases and loading into the Sprinter. Our driver on this trip is Knowledge. We went to our Inn, the African Dream, setteled in and went to dinner. After dinner Heather and I said our goodnites and went off to our room and some much needed rest.

10/13/20
  We were awakened this morning6am around  by our host missionarys. The news they brought us caught us by supprise.Our traveling friend and founder of Childrens Cup had gone to be with Jesus during the night. Dave Ohlerking was used by God to put Swaziland on my and Heathers heart. Karen Holte said that I look forward to seeing that come to pass. We left later in the day to head to Mbabane, Swaziland. Arrived at our "home" for the next seven days.The Red Berry Inn is a wonderful place with wonderful views of the mountians.

10/14/2010
Kusile--good morning. We had our morning devotions and breakfast, then it was time to go pick up the Interns. HPC Swaziland hour as an intern program like our home church. These are teens who will go through an eleven month program where they get closer to God thru bible study, service projects. They agree not to have a job, be in a relationship and devote the eleven months to serving God. We pick up the Interns and Tyrone sits next to me. Tye is a graduate from the last Intern program. He is now working with the new interns. We go to the Dream Center. The Dream Center is being built to house the interns during their eleven month training. We all had devotions together where the interns sang to us. You have not experenced worship untill you hear the Interns sing. After devotions we head down to the Care Point. These are places where the kids from around the area are fed and go to classes. While at the Care Point we loved on the kids and did some repairs on the buildings. These kids are begging to be loved. As I look into their eyes all I see is a child looking for somebody to love them. They are beautiful!  Heather loved the kids. She got down on the ground and played with them.That was our day, loving on kids and working on their Care Point.
While working on the Cooks building, which is a building with a roof and walls all around about two feet high, Tyrone asked me what I thought of Swaziland. Swaziland reminds me of the mountians of North Carolina. I even noticed a knob on one mountian range that reminded me of Pilot mt. It is a beautiful place with alot of pain.