Through my Eyes

The brokenness that I see in the communities can at times feel overwhelming. It can feel hopeless yet there is such beauty in amongst this brokenness and despair. This beauty is hope. Hope means more than a vague wish that something will happen. it is a sure and confident expectation in God's future faithfulness and presence. Our hope is in Jesus who promised He would not leave us behind as orphans. There is hope in seeing a child smile. There is hope in witnessing the loving exchange between a Care Worker and a child. There is hope in seeing a child with food sticking to their face and hands because it means that their stomach is full. There is hope in seeing people fully and completely surrender their lives to Christ, knowing that He loves them. He sees them. He knows them by name. Jesus Christ is our hope. He is bringing light to the darkness and love to the lost. Through Him we have a hope for the future. We can shine His bright light into situations of despair as we have bee

It’s been almost two months since I last wrote and a part of me feels like nothing important or crucial has happened, leaving me with nothing to update people on; yet at the same time I feel like much has happened in the spiritual and emotional journey that God has been and is currently taking me on. It has been a season where God has been challenging and helping me to confront the areas in which I struggle but it has subsequently been a season of digging deeper into God’s love and developing a deeper reverence and adoration for God the Father.  At the beginning of March, the Hands at Work family both in Africa and around the globe joined together for a season of prayer that we call ’40 Days of Prayer’. This is a time for the Hands family to join together as we stand and intercede on behalf of the most vulnerable in Africa. It is a special time as God draws us closer to His heart in this of prayer.  The last week of ’40 Days of Prayer’ coincides with Holy Week. Holy Week, i

I'm going to write this blog post a little bit differently as in I'm not going to write lots. The majority will be pictures with a caption and brief description to give a small picture of my time in Zimbabwe. Enjoy :) On the last Friday of every month, the Hands at Work family travels to one of the communities that we support to participate in something that we call "Community Prayer". This is an opportunity for the family to spend time with the Care Workers in a particular community, encouraging them and praying with them. Hands at Work has recently started helping to care for children in a community called Chinyansunzi, Zimbabwe. It was such a blessing to see many pastors show up from the local church and engage in helping to serve the poorest of the poor around them. It is amazing to see the vision of Hands at Work come to life by having the local church helping care for the most vulnerable within their communities. Gods' hand is surely at work in this new

As many people may know, I arrived back in South Africa on Saturday the 7th of January to serve with Hands at Work where we jumped right into the launch of the new year with our watchword (a verse that sets the theme for the year).  I was wonderfully granted the rest of the week to rest, get caught up on my sleep and the opportunity to connect with people who I hadn't seen in a few months as well as help with looking after some of the children.  I know that before I left Canada, many people were curious to know about what exactly I would be doing while I was in Africa. At the time, I didn't exactly have an answer, because in all honesty I didn't even know. All I knew was that I would be serving in whatever way was necessary.  However since arriving and settling back into life in Africa, I had a meeting where I found out that I would once again be serving on the communications team. For those that are wondering what exactly the communications team does, well we do exactly w