illuminate… I Will Show My Children What I Can Do
Episode 4
Thank you for listening to illuminate, a podcast by Hands at Work in Africa.
Hands at Work seeks out the most broken places in Africa to bring life to the poorest of the poor and most vulnerable people by way of His Church, both internationally and locally.For the past few weeks, we've been able to sit with the Hands family here in South Africa as George Snyman shares about the Goma region. Since his return, much has changed…
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illuminate… I Will Show My Children What I Can Do
Episode 4
Thank you for listening to illuminate, a podcast by Hands at Work in Africa.
Hands at Work seeks out the most broken places in Africa to bring life to the poorest of the poor and most vulnerable people by way of His Church, both internationally and locally.For the past few weeks, we've been able to sit with the Hands family here in South Africa as George Snyman shares about the Goma region. Since his return, much has changed…
If you haven't already subscribed to the podcast, please find us on Spotify, Apple or Google Podcast by searching "Meanwhile in Africa..." Learn how you can give the gift of hope. Visit www.handsatwork.org/finding-the-most-vulnerable.
7/15
One of the things I love so much about our Care Points here in Goma is the rhythms and the safety that it brings to our children, to our grandmothers. Just in the last two and a half weeks, seeing how many of them feel so safe. Now it's school holidays and their normal rhythms are a little bit out of place, but you know what happened when our Care Workers had Relationship Groups? All our youth came! They joined them because they knew they were welcome there, and they knew they had a place where they could go and be prayed for and be heard. There was an old grandmother whose little hut burned down to the ground. When we got there yesterday morning, we stood at the Care Point and she was there because she knew she could come to somebody. She could come and say, "My hut burned down!" A safe place!
Little Justin and Chikuru and Baraka, all of them in preschool and maybe grade one and two, they know they welcome at the Care Points. They know they're are always people waiting for them. Little Baraka knows late in the mornings she can have a daily bath there, and she will be received with joy. And when it's cold and rainy, she can sit next to the fire with the ladies who are cooking. They are welcome and there's rhythm and it brings order and it brings safety and it brings hope. It's beautiful. We need more rhythms in our lives. This is something that Africa can teach us. This is something that so many of us are so lonely because we don't have the places of safety to go to.
There's a brokenness here in Goma that's so vivid and easy to see. And sometimes it's easier to fix it than it is in our own communities where all of us seem to be so looked after, but there might be chaos inside us. We need those rhythms. We need those safe places. Like Justin and Baraka, and the old granny, who knows she can come there when her hut is burned down. We need those places. God gave us rhythms to protect us and to love us. May you find your rhythms also. May you find your community where you are safe and where you can run to, just like I see it's happening here, in Goma!
Meanwhile in Africa...
illuminate… I Will Show My Children What I Can Do
Episode 4
Thank you for listening to illuminate, a podcast by Hands at Work in Africa.
Hands at Work seeks out the most broken places in Africa to bring life to the poorest of the poor and most vulnerable people by way of His Church, both internationally and locally.For the past few weeks, we've been able to sit with the Hands family here in South Africa as George Snyman shares about the Goma region. Since his return, much has changed…
If you haven't already subscribed to the podcast, please find us on Spotify, Apple or Google Podcast by searching "Meanwhile in Africa..." Learn how you can give the gift of hope. Visit www.handsatwork.org/finding-the-most-vulnerable.
