Comments on: A Voice from Zimbabwe http://stay-curious.com/archives/2008/11/17/a-voice-from-zimbabwe/ Encouraging curiosity about the world Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: danielandtonya http://stay-curious.com/archives/2008/11/17/a-voice-from-zimbabwe/comment-page-1/#comment-21991 danielandtonya Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:01:56 +0000 http://rmfo-blogs.com/lsw/?p=292#comment-21991 Karyn, Found your blog! We look forward to reading more. Karyn,

Found your blog! We look forward to reading more.

]]> By: Karyn http://stay-curious.com/archives/2008/11/17/a-voice-from-zimbabwe/comment-page-1/#comment-21985 Karyn Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:06:04 +0000 http://rmfo-blogs.com/lsw/?p=292#comment-21985 I also wanted to post a little bit about what my friend and his church are actually doing. This is from another letter, "As a church we are trying to do what we can to help wherever we can, little though it be. I preached this Sunday on Luke 10 and the Good Samaritan, encouraging our people to express the love of Christ in these times of great challenge and need. We try on a church level to do that through our growing Social concerns ministry. Through the kindness of friends outside the country who supply funds, we source materials to put together at least 100 food packs per month, and have other basic food stuffs available for people who come for help. We have recently opened a weekly simple clinic attended by a kind doctor for people off the street and disburse food, medicine, clothing, transport money and other help to hundreds through the month. We receive and distribute food parcels purchased by friends in NZ and Australia, and also partner with Baptist churches in South Africa to procure food from across the border in South Africa and distribute among our sister churches (the border crossing into South Africa takes typically 5-8 hours due to the number of Zimbabweans crossing over to purchase basic food stuffs which cannot be bought here!) We also work with <a href="http://www.baptistglobalresponse.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=106&Itemid=39" rel="nofollow">Baptist Global Response</a> in regularly distributing thousands of food boxes around the country through our churches. God has given us as a church a wonderful opportunity at this time to help others, we pray that we will be a faithful conduit of His blessing to others in need." I also wanted to post a little bit about what my friend and his church are actually doing. This is from another letter, “As a church we are trying to do what we can to help wherever we can, little though it be. I preached this Sunday on Luke 10 and the Good Samaritan, encouraging our people to express the love of Christ in these times of great challenge and need. We try on a church level to do that through our growing Social concerns ministry. Through the kindness of friends outside the country who supply funds, we source materials to put together at least 100 food packs per month, and have other basic food stuffs available for people who come for help. We have recently opened a weekly simple clinic attended by a kind doctor for people off the street and disburse food, medicine, clothing, transport money and other help to hundreds through the month. We receive and distribute food parcels purchased by friends in NZ and Australia, and also partner with Baptist churches in South Africa to procure food from across the border in South Africa and distribute among our sister churches (the border crossing into South Africa takes typically 5-8 hours due to the number of Zimbabweans crossing over to purchase basic food stuffs which cannot be bought here!) We also work with Baptist Global Response in regularly distributing thousands of food boxes around the country through our churches. God has given us as a church a wonderful opportunity at this time to help others, we pray that we will be a faithful conduit of His blessing to others in need.”

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