Overwhelmed by injustice we fight for what should be a right of every human being. The right to eat!

Over the past few weeks our team has really been dealing with what we should do about the hunger in the community we live amongst. We eat 3 meals a day; the kids around us eat 1. Maybe 2 if they're lucky! We have a variety of foods to choose from when deciding what to eat for the week; they get porridge. Most nights there are at least a couple kids that hang around the house hoping to eat with us, and we have to say no.

We didn't come to Swaziland to feed an entire community, but what do you do. AIM and Children's Hope Chest are doing the best they can to get food for the Care Points so these people can eat, but it's so hard to watch kids run around with pot bellies because they aren't getting the food they really need! Our minds are exhausted from thinking about this ever present problem. Jesus commands us to feed the hungry, but we just don't know where to even start. Our budget was made to feed 5, not 500!

I've had 3 good meals a day for as long as I can remember, I have no clue what that kind of life is like. We come and preach that God provides, but I've never really been put in a position of starvation and been told to trust God! Maybe we're just struggling to relate with what they're going through because we're broken. The thing is, we keep coming back to the issue, and we have to live in it for the next 5 months. How do we live like Jesus in this? Do we pray over a sack of rice and start passing it out?

Hope is a hard thing to keep when you live in a country that should be renamed Oppression. If we begin to think about how big the problem is here, we rapidly become overwhelmed. The whole thing is about people, and if we take our eyes off of the people and try to focus on fixing the bigger picture, nothing will ever change. Our God is greater than hunger, it's about His Kingdom. This is reality, how does it change? People die because they don't have anything to eat!!!

The question we're fighting with is, What Would Jesus Do? Will sharing a little food over the next 5 months really make a difference? It doesn't change the situation; it just brushes it under the rug for a while. Will that even help some of these people, or will it make them worse off once we leave because they decided to depend on us for food?

I guess the only solution is Jesus. In the words of Blair, one of our leaders, "People just need Jesus, man." We raised enough support to be able to come here, not to feed a country. So, what now?...

Your comments and thoughts on this blog will be greatly appreciated. Please pray for us.

In Christ,

Jon