What Do You Do?

What do you do when you meet a grandmother who is taking care of 16 children?

What do you do if they have no garden, half their houses don’t have roofs, the water coming in the pipes from the mountain stops during the dry season, they can’t pay for school fees, and they don’t have the clothes they need?

What do you do when a woman says that demons attack her, giving her hallucinations of people she knows, so that her friends have to spend the day with her and help her care for her children?

What do you do when a mother asks for help with her oldest children because her current husband is not their father and he will not help provide for them as his own?

What do you do when the only thing a family has to eat is a corn meal porridge and leaves they pick out of the field?

What do you do when nobody has food, and none of them have the money to start a garden and put up fences?

What do you do when it is 40 degrees at night and you know that up on the mountain are children, parents, and grandparents sleeping in mud and stick homes without the clothes and blankets they need to keep warm?

What do you do when you know these are just the beginning of the problems, when you know that just up the road and around the corner are people who are abused, neglected, hurting, and dying?

What do you do? PRAY!


Lord, give me wisdom. Let me be Your light and Your love to the hurting and hopeless. May my smile, my handshake, my hug, my touch bring life and comfort. Bring Your Word, Your Truth, Your Wisdom, Your Love to the people of Hawane. In You they will not only have life, they will have it more abundantly. In You they will have hope and love. As they love You, they will learn to love the people around them, helping one another and working together. Show them what a blessing it is to give, and as they begin to give bless them abundantly. Renew their minds, through Your Spirit, that they may see the world through eyes that know victory and richness in You. May You be their God, and they Your people. Let them shout from the mountain tops “Jesus is Lord!” Thank You that You desire to know the people here more than I desire for them to know You. You hear their cries and their prayers, and Your ear turns towards them. You see them, You know them, and You love them. Christ, You died for them and You are worthy to receive the reward of Your sacrifice…their lives. Be glorified in me, in these people, and in this place!!