What If…

40 Days of Water

// February 11th, 2010 // Comments Off // Current Affairs, Family, Food and Drink

Forty Days of Water from Blood:Water Mission on Vimeo.

The Snow Leopard vs The Water Well

// August 28th, 2009 // 10576 Comments »http://williamguice.com/2009/08/28/the-snow-leopard-vs-water/The+Snow+Leopard+vs+The+Water+Well2009-08-28+13%3A15%3A46William+Guice // Current Affairs

Is not going to change your life. It’s not really that different anyway. But…

could change theirs forever!

What if you took that $29 and gave it to

$29 gives 29 human beings water for 1 year.

So,

1) Donate

2) Pass this along

3) Ready – GO!

Malawi Bound

// April 21st, 2009 // Comments Off // Family

Hello blog readers, this is my friend Kelsey.  You should get to know her. She's the daughter of some good friends Mike & Sheila.

One of the very cool parts of growing up/getting old that no one told me about is not only getting to watch your kids grow up but getting to see others children do so as well.  Getting to see Kelsey's journey, even if from a distance, has been cool. Her journey has taught me a lot about how God pursues and gifts us. I can honestly say I am proud of her and inspired by her. 

She is bright, funny, talented and above all compassionate. (except maybe with a couple of younger males creatures who live with her…but that's kinda understandable.  little brothers are tough   It's been really cool to watch from a distance what God has been doing in her life and how He is shaping her into an incredible disciple.

Today I wanted to blog about her because her compassion is leading her back to Africa.  Kelsey went to Africa with The People's Church last year and I think she might have stayed if she could have.  The continent & its people captured her heart and she has been on a quest to get back ever since. 

Check out her blog and you'll see not only her talent but her heart for  Africa.  This summer she is heading back to Malawi and I know that God will use her and continue his work in her through this trip. 

SO…Take just a second to check out her story and follower her blog as she heads back across the ocean this summer.

As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God

// December 28th, 2008 // Comments Off // Current Affairs

Before Christmas I returned, after 45 years, to the country that as
a boy I knew as Nyasaland. Today it’s Malawi, and The Times Christmas
Appeal includes a small British charity working there. Pump Aid helps
rural communities to install a simple pump, letting people keep their
village wells sealed and clean. I went to see this work.

It
inspired me, renewing my flagging faith in development charities. But
travelling in Malawi refreshed another belief, too: one I’ve been
trying to banish all my life, but an observation I’ve been unable to
avoid since my African childhood. It confounds my ideological beliefs,
stubbornly refuses to fit my world view, and has embarrassed my growing
belief that there is no God.

Now a confirmed atheist, I’ve
become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism
makes in Africa: sharply distinct from the work of secular NGOs,
government projects and international aid efforts. These alone will not
do. Education and training alone will not do. In Africa Christianity
changes people’s hearts. It brings a spiritual transformation. The
rebirth is real. The change is good.

I used to avoid this truth
by applauding – as you can – the practical work of mission churches in
Africa. It’s a pity, I would say, that salvation is part of the
package, but Christians black and white, working in Africa, do heal the
sick, do teach people to read and write; and only the severest kind of
secularist could see a mission hospital or school and say the world
would be better without it. I would allow that if faith was needed to
motivate missionaries to help, then, fine: but what counted was the
help, not the faith.

But this doesn’t fit the facts. Faith does
more than support the missionary; it is also transferred to his flock.
This is the effect that matters so immensely, and which I cannot help
observing.

As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God | Matthew Parris – Times Online.