I can't believe how fast the time is flying. The first trip after the World Cup is done and the team is already back home. It is always a blessing to Vanguard church here and this year was no difference. The rest of the year are also already fully booked. (Not sure when to schedule having this baby!!!)

Currently our friend Amber is here helping out again. It is such a blessing to have her here; she truly has a servant's heart. We also have a new staff member from the USA. Her name is Megan and I am so thankful for her as well. She and Ncobile have been taking care of al the yearly profile updates at a lot of the carepoints and I have been able to stay home more and try to catch up on some administrative things. When coming to teams my role has definitely changed. I am no longer going out to the carepoints with all the teams (Jumbo does more of that now). I am doing a lot of the 'behind the scenes' things .... Like shopping for whatever the team might need, preparing lunches and making a lot of the arrangements.

My mom also came for a quick, unexpected visit and it is so nice to have her here with us. Jumbo's dad is doing well and he is gone for a few days visiting Jumbo's sister.

Through all of this I also have this huge desire 'to nest'!! I want to get the house ready; I want to get baby's room ready. Amber and another awesome friend of mine started painting baby's room on Saturday. I am so blessed and so enjoying this time of spoiling and pampering!

I am also doing some sorting and repacking in the house and I came upon a little notebook where I made some notes of church messages I listened to or attended. One of them was a message by Pastor Walter, the local pastor we are working with. I really want to share some of it with you.

He was preaching from Luke 8:43-48 about the woman with the issue of blood and he was saying that Swaziland is a country with an issue of blood because of AIDS. Many people were touching Jesus that day, but He knew exactly when someone with faith touched Him. So there is definitely a difference between touching Jesus and touching Jesus with faith! Pastor Walter urged his congregation to go to Jesus in faith; to be different than the Swazi's around then. This woman also went against her culture; as a woman she wasn't suppose to be there, but because she had faith and she was desperate, she pushed through. Many times we do not have enough faith, because we are not desperate enough. So in this country where people live in desperation, we need to see that this desperation turns into faith. It is time for the Swazi people to look and truly turn to Jesus with a desperate faith, and not to the ancestors, or the witch doctors, or to the aid that comes from outside of Swaziland. Swaziland needs to see the power of God and not just the preaching of His word. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of power and not of words.