Malawi is amazing! The things God is doing here is so good. There is so much in store for Senga Bay. It is so apparent that God hand picked each and every individual to bring exactly what this land needs. One of the main things is love.
It is difficult to minister to the people like you would regularly. Maybe tell them a bible story, tell them who Jesus is and how he came down and died for us, that we are here to tell them the good news and help bring them to Jesus. But because of the language barrier you can't just go down to sit and talk. The message or tool we use is love. We try to immitate the love we know that Christ showed us. His love is beyond what we can imagine but, because He lives inside us the people see it so clearly that there is something different. Everyone wants to be loved. People gravitate toward Gods love because it is so great they thirst for it more and more.
I myself have found more what God's love looks like and yet there is so much to be dug up. He loves His children so much that it takes a life time and you still can't comprehend the amount of love. The community I have been living in for the past three and a half months reflects God's love better than I've ever experienced. God has healed and strengthened my faith so much just through the love He has revealed to me.
These families here in malawi don't understand that the feeling they strive for is love. By just showing love that we find in God, eyes are brightened, faces begin to smile, and children run into your arms to be filled by the love that is everlasting and life giving. Eventhough we can't explain with words what this love really is, that God IS love we show it and pray that they see it's not just a conditional temorary love but, we love because God first loved us and they will find love that is MORE than enough when they find christ.
I pray that God takes hold of every heart here in Senga Bay. That all the children and mamas we have done life with the past 6 weeks will open there eyes and see there was something different in the Uzungus lives. As we leave here I pray that the spirit of love stays and spreads throughout every village we went to.
I am going to miss walking down a dirt road feeling so hot and tired and having a whole pack of kids come around the corner and just run at you screaming with joy to run into your arms. All trying to beat each other to get in the arms of us first. Getting some time to sit down and just hold a child in your arms and love on them for even just 5 minutes makes your week because you know that five minutes is something they may not have gotten there whole one or three or seven years of life. To take that child and show them they are loved and to feel the love and the hurt God must feel when one of His own children takes delight in the love He gives us each and everyday.
