Hello Everyone!
Welcome to my blog aobut my adventures through Africa. For those who do not know I will be leaving June 15 and coming back Dec 15th. i have called my site what i ahve called it because in SiSwati that means friend. I am hoping by going to Swaziland to befriend people who have lost all but hope and show them the hope and love of Christ which is why i called it friend. I only found it fitting....Well, i am a little less than two months and are starting to get ready to finish up here at Liberty so I can set my focus on Africa! I ask you all contiune to pray and just pray the Lord provides. I am going ot place a copy of my letter on here below. also below is a video of somewhat of what i will be encountering it is not a video from the IMB so it may be different but I am sure somewhat similar. Okay, well I love you all! Heather
my Support letter
Dear Family and Friends,
Hello! I pray this letter finds you doing well. Signs of spring are starting to show here at Lynchburg and with that, hopefully the warm weather will soon follow. I want to start off this letter by telling you a story. Three years ago I went to a conference for college students called Passion. It was at this conference that Louie Giglio spoke about the people of Heaven and who was going to be there. He spoke about the need to go "harvest" people for Heaven, for if we don't, there were will be people missing. It was through this message that the Holy Spirit began to lead my heart into missions. I told the Lord at this event I would go anywhere and do anything for him, except go to Africa. I am convinced the Lord just laughed at my "negotiation". It has been over the past two years through a series of events that the Lord has given me a burning passion and has broken my heart many times for the people of Africa. Well, as many of you know, this is my last semester here at Liberty and the Lord has given me an amazing opportunity through Liberty to do my internship with the people I have been praying for and have had a heart for. The Lord has opened a door for me through the International Mission Board to go to Swaziland, Africa to work, live, and minister alongside the people for six months (June 15th-Dec 15th), teaching HIV/AIDS prevention and the True Love Waits program.
Swaziland, Africa is interlocked within South Africa and North of Mozambique. It is a country that has been stricken by the HIV/AIDS virus. In 2009, the World Health Organization deemed it a pandemic in Swaziland, saying Swaziland has one of the highest death rates in the world of HIV/AIDS and as a result, Swaziland has one smallest life expectancy rates in the world. If this continues, whole people groups may eventually become nonexistent. I am excited to say I have a chance to be an answer to the problem.
You can also help be a part of the answer by ministering alongside of me. In order to go first and foremost, I am going to need prayer support. I have learned since being here at Liberty that prayer is one of the most important necessities in the life of a person in ministry. I ask you all too please be in prayer. Second, you can also be part of this ministry by helping me to go financially. In order to go for six months, I am going to need to raise $2900 by June 1st. This amount will completely support me for six months. It covers my transportation there and back, training/debriefing, food, lodging, health insurance, and whatever else I may need. I know these are trying times, but I also know the Lord promises in Philippians 4:19: He will be the great provider.
If you would like to join me in my mission by giving financially, you can send money/checks to Cornerstone Baptist Church 1543 Anderson Hwy Hartwell, GA 30643. If you write a check, please do not place my name on the check but make it out to Cornerstone Baptist Church and in the memo line write Swaziland project. This is done in order to make it tax deductible and they are ones who have been put in charge of keeping up with the financial part. I promise all support that comes in will go towards this trip.
I want to thank you all in advance! I pray that the Lord continues to bless you all! I have faith the Lord is going to provide. I truly do believe this trip is of the Lord for I have seen his hand on it since the beginning. I just now ask if you will be a part of it with me. While there, I am going to have a blog. If you would like to follow my journey the address is http://changetheworldafrica.blogspot.com/. Thank you all again!
In HIS name,
Heather
Luke 10:2
