Why Do We Do What We Do???????

Photo by Laurie Hanson Thompson 2005

Psalm 139:13-14 NASB

For You formed my inward parts;

You wove me in my mother's womb.

I will give thanks to You,

 for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

A group of ladies from Baker Heights put Birthing Kits together to send to Zambia for the 2014 Medical Mission. 

Some people ask, "Why don't you put this and that in? Why? Why? 

It is hard to comprehend the poverty that the majority of Zambian people live in. How do we as Americans comprehend  what it must look like for 80% of Zambian people to live on $2.00 a day or less?  A lot of Zambians do not even have that $2.00. Their survival depends on what they can garner from the earth.

Copyright by Shelia Holmes

For most Americans it is impossible to understand that the clothes on some Zambians back maybe the only clothes they own. When one looks at their feet, they are often bare.                                     

How do we as Americans understand that the field mice they catch may be the only food they and their family have for the day?

Copyright by Shelia Holmes

How do we really realize that a lot of the water they have to drink and cook with is the same water they bathe in, wash clothes, cook with, animals drink from, and they carry on their heads for miles to get it to their village?

Most Americans just do not have a knowledge base to understand.  

The first time I went to Zambia I was so overwhelmed by the extreme and widespread poverty.  Seeing truly is believing. It has changed my perspective.  And I thank God.

Back to the birthing kits.  What good can a piece of plastic, a scalpel, two pieces of string, two pairs of rubber gloves, two anti-bacterial wipes, four gauze, soap, a baby blanket, a tiny baby cap, an HIV/AIDS pamphlet and an Intro lesson the WBS do?

The plastic can provide a clean place for the mother to lie on to birth her baby.  The rubber gloves can keep germs off the baby and out of the mother.  The wipes can clean the birthing site as well as hands. The clean string can be used instead of dirty elephant grass or a dirty rag to tie the cord.  The clean sterile scalpel can be used to cut the cord.

The sterile gauze can clean the baby's mouth, eyes, ears, etc.

The gauze can help stop some of the bleeding of the mother.  The HIV/AIDS pamphlet can inform them and others about AIDS prevention and the Intro lesson to WBS may very well lead them, as well as others to Christ.

Think about what happens when they do not have these things. They have a dirty birthing site, dirty hands wiping the eyes, mouth, and nose of the baby. They have dirty hands handling the cord and using dirty elephant grass to cut the cord. Possibly they will never learn about AIDS prevention. 

How will they hear if no one teaches them?  Remember the majority of the people in Zambia have no Bible.

Many women have to trek to hospital on foot or go by bike while heavily pregnant.  Some women who live in more remote areas cannot even make it to a health facility in time. These women are frequently forced to give birth at home in unsterile conditions and with little assistance.  

Zambia suffers from an excessively high maternal mortality rate of 591 deaths per 100,000 live births.  More than 50% of Zambian women receive no postnatal care at all. http://blogs.unicef.org.uk/2014/02/18/children-commonwealth-zambia-babies

Why take the time to gather supplies and make the Birthing Kits? Maybe we will get to be a tiny part of some ones precious birth. God knows the unformed substance of these children and He knows the number of their days.  Maybe we will be a tiny part of God’s work in Zambia. Maybe He wants us to have the privilege of helping one of these babies survive so it can grow up to serve him.

Some may have heard the story of Wellington’s birth on the side of the road on the way to the clinic. His mother and grandmother birthed him, wrapped him and carried him on to the clinic. Look what God has done with Wellington. What if he had not survived?

I am reminded that God does not need anything from us.

In Acts 17:24 The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; 25 nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;

Verses 26-27 sums up why we take the time and trouble to put together a simple Birthing Kit and go to Zambia.

26 and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;.  

The focus is not on what we are doing, the focus is on what God wants us to do. Mark 16:15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. 16 He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.

Colossians 3:23 Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men,.

God does not need us to do His work but He blesses us by allowing us to participate in His mighty work. Thanks you God.

For a free Bible study go to:www.bigcountry.worldbibleschool.org

Why Do We Do What We Do???????

Photo by Laurie Hanson Thompson 2005

Psalm 139:13-14 NASB

For You formed my inward parts;

You wove me in my mother's womb.

I will give thanks to You,

 for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

A group of ladies from Baker Heights put Birthing Kits together to send to Zambia for the 2014 Medical Mission. 

Some people ask, "Why don't you put this and that in? Why? Why? 

It is hard to comprehend the poverty that the majority of Zambian people live in. How do we as Americans comprehend  what it must look like for 80% of Zambian people to live on $2.00 a day or less?  A lot of Zambians do not even have that $2.00. Their survival depends on what they can garner from the earth.

Copyright by Shelia Holmes

For most Americans it is impossible to understand that the clothes on some Zambians back maybe the only clothes they own. When one looks at their feet, they are often bare.                                     

How do we as Americans understand that the field mice they catch may be the only food they and their family have for the day?

Copyright by Shelia Holmes

How do we really realize that a lot of the water they have to drink and cook with is the same water they bathe in, wash clothes, cook with, animals drink from, and they carry on their heads for miles to get it to their village?

Most Americans just do not have a knowledge base to understand.  

The first time I went to Zambia I was so overwhelmed by the extreme and widespread poverty.  Seeing truly is believing. It has changed my perspective.  And I thank God.

Back to the birthing kits.  What good can a piece of plastic, a scalpel, two pieces of string, two pairs of rubber gloves, two anti-bacterial wipes, four gauze, soap, a baby blanket, a tiny baby cap, an HIV/AIDS pamphlet and an Intro lesson the WBS do?

The plastic can provide a clean place for the mother to lie on to birth her baby.  The rubber gloves can keep germs off the baby and out of the mother.  The wipes can clean the birthing site as well as hands. The clean string can be used instead of dirty elephant grass or a dirty rag to tie the cord.  The clean sterile scalpel can be used to cut the cord.

The sterile gauze can clean the baby's mouth, eyes, ears, etc.

The gauze can help stop some of the bleeding of the mother.  The HIV/AIDS pamphlet can inform them and others about AIDS prevention and the Intro lesson to WBS may very well lead them, as well as others to Christ.

Think about what happens when they do not have these things. They have a dirty birthing site, dirty hands wiping the eyes, mouth, and nose of the baby. They have dirty hands handling the cord and using dirty elephant grass to cut the cord. Possibly they will never learn about AIDS prevention. 

How will they hear if no one teaches them?  Remember the majority of the people in Zambia have no Bible.

Many women have to trek to hospital on foot or go by bike while heavily pregnant.  Some women who live in more remote areas cannot even make it to a health facility in time. These women are frequently forced to give birth at home in unsterile conditions and with little assistance.  

Zambia suffers from an excessively high maternal mortality rate of 591 deaths per 100,000 live births.  More than 50% of Zambian women receive no postnatal care at all. http://blogs.unicef.org.uk/2014/02/18/children-commonwealth-zambia-babies

Why take the time to gather supplies and make the Birthing Kits? Maybe we will get to be a tiny part of some ones precious birth. God knows the unformed substance of these children and He knows the number of their days.  Maybe we will be a tiny part of God’s work in Zambia. Maybe He wants us to have the privilege of helping one of these babies survive so it can grow up to serve him.

Some may have heard the story of Wellington’s birth on the side of the road on the way to the clinic. His mother and grandmother birthed him, wrapped him and carried him on to the clinic. Look what God has done with Wellington. What if he had not survived?

I am reminded that God does not need anything from us.

In Acts 17:24 The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; 25 nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;

Verses 26-27 sums up why we take the time and trouble to put together a simple Birthing Kit and go to Zambia.

26 and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;.  

The focus is not on what we are doing, the focus is on what God wants us to do. Mark 16:15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. 16 He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.

Colossians 3:23 Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men,.

God does not need us to do His work but He blesses us by allowing us to participate in His mighty work. Thanks you God.

For a free Bible study go to:www.bigcountry.worldbibleschool.org

Water John 4:14 and John 6:35

As I read Lemonade Makin' Mama's Blog about blood:water mission I was reminded of the first trip I made to Zambia.

photo by blood:water.mission

I was in total shock because of the lack of clean water. For that matter for the lack of any kind of water.

We stayed in a "nice" guest houses. At times we had no running water. The cleanness of it was questionable at best. Some times it ran and sometimes it didn't. Sometimes it was cloudy and sometimes it was brown. 

This was in a major cities of Zambia.

photo by blood:water.mission

What about in the villages?

We traveled to three different villages in the bush.

Where was the water?

Not in the huts.

Not in the schools.

Not in the church buildings where we did the medical missions.

Not in the baptistery.

The pools of water that they used to baptize were muddy, dirty, spots where people washed their clothes

and dipped five gallon buckets of water to take home to drink and cook with.

We took the water we needed with us.

photo by blood:water.mission

In 2007 we stayed in the bush for eight days and nights where there was no electricity or running water.

I never even saw a  borehole(water well). I do not know where they got the water.

Some how the men kept the 55 gallon barrels full of water and hot for us to use to bathe with.

They were such servants. I never saw them carrying the water. I did occasionally see them adding wood to the fire and stoke it.

Bore Holes or Wells as we call them are hard to find. Many times the people go to the dirty pools of water wherever they can find them. 

photo by blood:water.mission

Turn your water off for a day and do not use it. 

Think about what it would be like to live every day with little or no clean water. 

Think about what we as Americans waste everyday by drinking a half of a bottle of water and throwing the rest out.

Think about how little one dollar means to most of us.

Think about what you can do to help the billions of people who do not have clean water.

photo by blood:water.mission

If you want to help blood:water mission , please do.

If you want to donate money to our program that teaches the gospel 

and drills water wells in Zambia,

 you may contact me by leaving me a comment.

John 4:14

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.

John 6:35

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; the who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.

For a Free Bible Study Click Here:

bigcountry.worldbibleschool.org

I am not affiliated with Lemonade Makin' Mama or blood:water mission. I am affiliated with the church that supports a work in the Eastern Province of Zambia.

Water John 4:14 and John 6:35

As I read Lemonade Makin' Mama's Blog about blood:water mission I was reminded of the first trip I made to Zambia.

photo by blood:water.mission

I was in total shock because of the lack of clean water. For that matter for the lack of any kind of water.

We stayed in a "nice" guest houses. At times we had no running water. The cleanness of it was questionable at best. Some times it ran and sometimes it didn't. Sometimes it was cloudy and sometimes it was brown. 

This was in a major cities of Zambia.

photo by blood:water.mission

What about in the villages?

We traveled to three different villages in the bush.

Where was the water?

Not in the huts.

Not in the schools.

Not in the church buildings where we did the medical missions.

Not in the baptistery.

The pools of water that they used to baptize were muddy, dirty, spots where people washed their clothes

and dipped five gallon buckets of water to take home to drink and cook with.

We took the water we needed with us.

photo by blood:water.mission

In 2007 we stayed in the bush for eight days and nights where there was no electricity or running water.

I never even saw a  borehole(water well). I do not know where they got the water.

Some how the men kept the 55 gallon barrels full of water and hot for us to use to bathe with.

They were such servants. I never saw them carrying the water. I did occasionally see them adding wood to the fire and stoke it.

Bore Holes or Wells as we call them are hard to find. Many times the people go to the dirty pools of water wherever they can find them. 

photo by blood:water.mission

Turn your water off for a day and do not use it. 

Think about what it would be like to live every day with little or no clean water. 

Think about what we as Americans waste everyday by drinking a half of a bottle of water and throwing the rest out.

Think about how little one dollar means to most of us.

Think about what you can do to help the billions of people who do not have clean water.

photo by blood:water.mission

If you want to help blood:water mission , please do.

If you want to donate money to our program that teaches the gospel 

and drills water wells in Zambia,

 you may contact me by leaving me a comment.

John 4:14

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.

John 6:35

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; the who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.

For a Free Bible Study Click Here:

bigcountry.worldbibleschool.org

I am not affiliated with Lemonade Makin' Mama or blood:water mission. I am affiliated with the church that supports a work in the Eastern Province of Zambia.