Love Kindness and Do Justice

Thank you for your companionship on God’s path of righteousness with your thoughts and prayers while the mission team travelled to the Urukundo Home for Children in Rwanda, August 13-23, and when I visited my congregation’s sister church, St. Andrews United Methodist Church in Zimbabwe, August 24-28.

I saw God’s love and mercy expressed in a multitude of ways:

• giving comfort to a family whose loved one was dying of AIDS;
• concreting a dirt floor in a teen-led household;
• holding a two-year-old child who was left to die in an abandoned house;
• touching the stone containment tank of chlorinated water that quenched the thirst of a village;
• comprehending the factors that lead to the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and the efforts to bring about healing to the country;
• helping toddlers piece together a puzzle on the floor of Hope House;
• and preaching to a congregation of 600 people with the aid of a translator.

Your prayers sustained the members of the mission team as we endeavored to walk God’s path of righteousness and help people experience God’s comfort, peace, and hope. Now your prayers will help the members of the mission team to integrate the experiences within their own lives, and to help tell the story so others can be inspired to love kindness and do justice within their spheres of influence.

God bless you!

With much gratitude,

Lee Ellenberger