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Written by Phil White
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 06:00 |
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“You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry, defending the fatherless and the oppressed, so that mere earthly mortals will never again strike terror” (TNIV). This excerpt from Psalm 10 appears at the top of a blog written by Dennis Brock, a Christian missionary whose work in the tiny, AIDS-ravaged African nation of Swaziland is inspired by God’s love for the poor. The verse has added meaning for Brock because God heard his cry of desperation earlier in life.
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Written by Matt Lafferty
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 07:30 |
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 Apoyo Matek! This means “thank you very much” in Luo, the language of Uganda. The locals said it so often on a recent trip that I wondered why they remained so thankful. I found their unshakable attitude for each day and every person they come across amazing, especially in the wake of such a difficult, war-torn past.
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Written by Julian Lukins
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010 08:50 |
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A generation ago, the young tribal people of Papua’s remote interior roamed the highlands with stone axes and spears.
Papua’s youth still hike the misty mountain trails—only now they carry solar-powered MP3 players.
They’re not plugged into Coldplay, though. They’re listening to voices in their own dialects—young people with messages about a killer that’s sweeping through their villages. That killer is HIV/AIDS.
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Written by Lisa Samson and Ty Samson
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Wednesday, 05 May 2010 07:30 |
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 Sexual promiscuity is the norm in Swaziland. One pastor shook his head and said his church focuses on people 18 and younger, trying to give them an alternative, a way of respect for their bodies and the bodies of others. "It's just too late fix the older people," he said sadly.
But Jesus wants His love in us to continually reach across our thresholds and away from our easy chairs. It would be easy to lump together all those who have contracted AIDS through their own choices and call them "an issue" or "a problem.”
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Written by Julian Lukins
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 08:00 |
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 Under a bamboo-and-leaf shelter called a ktom, several women discuss their deepest dread: AIDS.
The scourge of AIDS is very real in the village of Prek Thmey. “We didn’t know anything about AIDS before you came,” one woman tells a development worker. “We’d heard the name AIDS, but we didn’t know what it was.”
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