It only takes one spark in dry grass to cause a wildfire! And that is something that we believe in. And that's something that we love, because a spark is not something major and impressive. A spark is just something small and seemingly insignificant.
She's so vulnerable. The Cyclone hit her mom and her hut, and overnight they disappeared. They left the village four hours into the bushes in a very tough area where men don't like to go.
This cannot happen! Erick can't go and visit these children if you don't support it. You are directly responsible for this incredible work.
She used to have a number of children staying in her hut. And when I stayed there, I would sit outside in the evenings around the fire, and all these kids would come sit around me. I could never have imagined that this granddaughter would one day decide just to pack up and to go.
All of it only starts with a passion. A passion about something bigger than yourself. A passion to stand up for a cause as to champion something.
We just saw a beautiful scene of a valley and the sun. Somebody commented how beautiful it is. And I could just say to them, "Yeah, we can see the beauty so easy, but can you see the brokenness around you also? Can you also see the pain?"
Everything gets pushed down, down, down, down until it reaches those at the bottom of the barrel. Our widows are now getting kicked off the piece of land that they are renting for a few dollars a month. Really just living in a corner of somebody's property in the shack.
Last weekend I left Mozambique and I actually went straight to Swaziland to go and work there for a few days. And while I was in Swaziland, I started developing severe malaria. And I had no medication with me.
One of my prayers has always been: Lord when those times must come to me, may your name be glorified. And that's going to take Supernatural power because in myself, I've got nothing.
She is looking after a number of orphans in her hut, and in the middle of the night, they had to jump out, as the house completely collapsed. And today they are living in a little kitchen hut .
One of the first things that you learn when you're on ground zero in Africa after a tragedy like this is just the incredible small margin of error the poorest of the poor people have before a normal, big problem or crisis turned into a disaster.
One of the first things that you learn when you're on ground zero in Africa after a tragedy like this is just the incredible small margin of error the poorest of the poor people have before a normal, big problem or crisis turned into a disaster.