Saturday
Walking through the villages here can be heart wrenching. They have so little. The average income for one of the village we went to was $83 a year.
Recently one of the men committed suicide. When missionaries spoke of the need to report his death, they replied "the authorities don't know we exist. We have no paperwork. We are nobody to them." Before Christians came to this village the people were without hope.
But Christians have changed this. It began in simple ways... Bringing water, a hydro water generator, beginning a school, starting a medical clinic. Ten years later, Christianity blossoms among this previous animist village. This surely is the power of the gospel in action.
We are doing well as a team. The long bumpy roads are tiring but give lots of room for discussion and reflection. The people are so gracious to us - though I don't think I will be able to eat rice again within the month (breakfast, lunch and tea on rice gets tired real quick) :-)
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