Monday, July 26, 2010

Widows' Work

You might have noticed my lack of posts the last few days.  Or last two weeks.  Uhh...anyway, I have a great reason that I would like to share: we've had company.

This past weekend eleven people from our Home Office stayed with us in the village and we hosted two of them, the chairman of the board, who happens to be a lawyer, and RC Sproul, Jr., who followed in his father's footsteps to become a pastor.  Having a pastor, a lawyer and a seminary student (Richard) at the table always made breakfast very exciting.

On Saturday, we coordinated with a partner church for our guests to meet with the Widows' Program.  One of our ministries is to purchase arts/crafts from widows and other poor women, and then sell their handiwork in the states so they can earn money to support their families.  One very cool you-should-be-jealous part of my job is working with the widows' program to select and order products.  I have been praying for an opportunity to meet the widows directly and watch them make such beautiful things.  I'm so grateful God answered that prayer on Saturday! 

Here is a video of how our meeting started.  The women greeted us with "Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross" sung in Kikuyu, a local tribal language.  The video is kind of long, so enjoy as much of it as you would like.  More posts in this vein to come!


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