Angola Slide Show
Here are some of the pictures from Angola that Janice shared with me last week. There were so many to choose from! I know you will be blessed by seeing the beautiful faces of the children that LIFE Outreach International has the privilege of serving through their Mission Feeding program. We have already talked a lot about this, but I wanted you to have the chance to see these pictures.
Some of the images are difficult to look at, such as the ones from the clinics. You'll see very skinny infants who are actually toddlers. Malnourishment horribly stunts the children's physical and mental growth. Janice explained to me that babies do okay until they are weaned. After that, it is very easy for them to go downhill quickly. It might take a while for an adult to die from malnutrition, but it can happen very quickly for a child. A bout with dysentery after being exposed to micro-organisms in their food or water can be very hard to recover from.
The good news is that something is being done to help some of these malnourished children. Lives are being saved. A difference is being made. Thank you, Lord.
posted by Amanda @ 1:12 PM
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69 Comments:
I'm in love...Lord, bless these little ones and the parents and workers. Feed them and fill them and let them come to see Jesus in each worker. Jesus, you are able.
Man, that is just awesome. Thank you.
Fernando breaks my heart!! OH my! I am thankful for this ministry! Is it dangerous for you and the crew to travel to these areas?? Are they safe?? I just wonder. I've never had a chance to go on a missions trip.
Blessings!
As I watched these slides , my heart broke as I saw their little faces. I just had cleaned out our refrigerator and had thrown away food that had spoiled. Oh God, forgive my wastefulness and help me remember how many people in our world do not have enough to eat. Praise goes to all the people that supported and/or went this feeding effort. God bless each one of you. Elaine
Just curious where the children got their clothes? The girl in the Cinderella nightgown was so precious! Did Life Outreach hand out the clothing too? It's incredible all that organization does for those precious Africans.
Thanks for posting the slideshow. I'm forever touched!
Kelli in Ohio
No words...
thank you for the pictures Amanda
Lord, forgive what we take for granted all too often. Bless and feed these precious children and their families. Thank you for the workers and may each person they come into contact with see You.
In Jesus Name, Amen.
Lord, Bless these children and their families, bless those who work so hard to feed them. Lord I pray each one of these precious people in Angola come to know You as Lord and Savior. Please meet their needs spiritually and physically. In Jesus' Name we pray.
Annette
Awesome, Awesome! I am speechless. Thank you Jesus!!
I am literally in tears!!! I have felt so down today due to extreme financial difficulty my family is facing. Literally, $24.00 in my checking account! However, I sit and watch this slide show as the aroma from a bag of popcorn my children just popped fills my nostrils. I am blessed beyond measure!
jenmom1707@yahoo.com
Jennifer
I am just overwhelmed with all these images....these children are just beautiful! I just wanted to squeeze them and love them. Their faces and eyes speak so much to us. The lines of ALL the children was just unbelievable. Thank you to everyone at Life Outreach for truly being the hands and feet of Jesus. We praise His name for the work being done!
It's just unbelievable to see these children. Here we are in America dealing with obesity and these precious ones stand in line to get water and a bowl of nutrition. Praise God for all who are a part of this much needed ministry. God Bless you all!! Thank you for sharing:)
Love,
Linda V ~ Las Vegas
I am so thankful for what God is doing there. It breaks my heart though...I can not imagine my child looking at me and her being hungry and me not being able to give her anything.
"Let the little children come unto me."
Those are some of the most moving pictures. I concur with one of the other post, in that we are dealing with obesity and these poor little babies don't have enough. Thanks for hitting me between the eye balls with this.
Those images are so powerful. Praise the Lord for Life Outreach and the difference they are making. My heart wants to sit and serve those precious little ones, love on them a little bit!
Thanks for sharing.
stephanie
That brakes my heart. I so much want to go over there& help some how. I love children & do a lot with children,in the church & the Lord has asked me to do more.I am so blessed to have 2 grown children & 3 grandchildern, I am blessed to have a house & food.A church & family & freinds.& people like Beth to teach.thanks for shareing this.I am going to pray & have the kids I teach at church to pray all so.Wish there was somethign they could do.Just breaks my heart.May all that went be so very blessed & recive a lot more blessings for going.God be with you all.Keep JOY Jesus frist, others second, your self last. God bless love sister in Christ Victoria PS thanks for doing Gods work & what he ask you to do.
I leave in 5 1/2 weeks for a mission trip to South Africa, so seeing your pictures is so helpful to me as I try to prepare my heart and mind for the journey ahead. Thank you for sharing these! What beautiful children!
Wow! How does your mom keep from grabbing all those kids and taking them home with her. She must do a lot of crying over those kids. I would be a mess. One day, when my kids are older I hope to go on a short term mission trip. I praise God for your mom and for life outreach international.
love you all,
Kristi
Thank you, Amanda, for posting this slide show. I wept through the whole thing, especially at the sight of Fernando. I plan to show my children this slide show and will pray about ways to bring awareness to this great need at some of my events. Our youth need to see these images.
"From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked." (Luke 12:48b)
Lord, start with me...
"The poor and needy search for water,
but there is none;
their tongues are parched with thirst.
But I the LORD will answer them;
I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
I will make rivers flow on barren heights,
and springs within the valleys.
I will turn the desert into pools of water,
and the parched ground into springs.”
Isaiah 41:17-18
Thanks Beth and Keith and everyone involved for being willing and sweet instruments of the Lord's provision. It is such a great privelege. To engage in that provision and to witness others. We are storming the gates of hell! Rick Warren has a new PEACE plan which talks about how it's time to "turn the audience into an army". I love it. Thanks for your example.
Julie B. Tucson Arizona
Father: bless this work, and break our hearts over your children who are suffering. Help us to give more than we ever thought possible and to pray longer than our bones ever dreamed of being nailed to the floor. Help us to be your hands and feet to these children and their families!
You were right that some of those pictures (sick children & graveyard) were hard to see, but I just have to say that those are some of the most beautiful people I have ever seen. Those kids are precious. There is one picture of a girl who is carrying a child in a colorful pack on her back and she is absolutely gorgeous!
How blessed even the poorest people in America are! We truly have no idea what it is to be hungry (really hungry) or thirsty.
Come quickly, Lord Jesus!
After seeing the pictures of Matthew and now this slide show I want to take these children home with me! As I made my 12 week old son a bottle I felt so incredibly grateful to God for all he blesses us with and I can't image the helplessness these mothers must feel when they can't feed their children. Thank you for reminding us how God works in our lives everyday.
Thank you for sharing these pictures. I am so spoiled, just to have a meal to eat 3 times a day.
I wanted to tell you, Beth and Amanda, that I have passed on a "Nice Award" to you both for this blog. I have met some wonderful ladies through this blog that I would have otherwise never met. I have learned so much from both of you and from all of the siestas! This blog has truly been a blessing to me, and your stories crack me up! I laugh until I cry!
Thank you both!
Wow...Thank you for posting these. It's so much easier to watch to know that something is being done for those sweet little children.
Beth, Our chuch has sent missionaries to Africa each year. This past Sunday we had one of the ministry leaders from Africa come to America to speak to several of our churches. He talked about how our little amount of money is feeding children and sending them to school. They have already set the date for the next interest meeting for folks to go. My husband and I had said we would pray about it. After those pics, I'll definitely be at the meeting. Glad the trip went as well as it could. I continue to pray for you, your family, and the ministry staff.
Thanks, Kim in Apex, NC
Thanks so much for sharing these precious pictures! They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and these are not short on words at all. It is so exciting to see Beth AND Keith on this mission in this ministry!!
I have been thinking on this much recently - how we strive to have water to make our grass green and others in other parts of the world strive to have water to simply live. How blessed we are - whether we really realize it or not!
Amanda, thank you for posting the pictures... and thank you, Beth, for continuing to talk about the trip... It breaks my heart... and awakens me to the self-centered comfortable lifestyle I live here...
Thank you for sharing. I am so glad to know that there is some caring souls who helping these beautiful children. I will continure to pray for them
The excesses we have are never more ugly when I see these faces. As you said in your other post about LP Rhode Island--"Oh that the rest of us would be so smart--to know how beautiful we are to Jesus." Darlene Zschech has a video on YouTube called "Change Your World" that so beautifully tells the same story. It is:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vMTXiHsHrKs
The kindness of God will make a way. Thank you for answering the call.
Annette
Father in Jesus name first of all I want to repent for my constant complaining when my four children have food on the table and clothes on their backs even when they mouth off too me and want 60.00 games and I have to tell them no I am in school we don't have it right now. How arrogant we American's are when McDonalds and the other fast food restraunts out there and we complain for paying 3.59 for a big kids meal for the kids because they want the toy!
Thank You Jesus for your precious blood on these children I pray that another child will not go hungry Here or anywhere else in the World. I pray for the end to Abortion, slavery of children in the world and all the awful murders, incest , rape and other evils out in the world. Lord open up our eyes to feed the poor and hungry and not waste and not be grateful. I ask all of these things in Jesus name.
Thank You Keith and Beth for giving your time to the Lord and allowing us to see . I want to go on a Mission's trip I am praying for My season to come !
Love Ya'll
Sue-La
PS. Keep my four children in your prayers my youngest astma is acting up again with the weather and I pray that the Lord uses my kids in a mighty way and my oldest gets His dream about going on a Missions trip!
God's timing is once again perfect. It is late here and my stomach is growling and I have been trying to convince myself that I do not need any thing to eat. I am quite sure that I do not even know what true hunger is. We are so spoiled by having our every need met--these pictures have reminded me to be more grateful for abundant blessing. I love the picture of Beth holding the little one on her lap where you can see her dirty knees. Just what I have come to expect from her--serving on her knees. What a blessing to see! Thanks for posting.
Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world...
Bless them Lord...Bless those that bless these children.
"I complained because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet~!"
I can hardly type for wiping the tears! May the images never leave our hearts! A mother holding her starving baby and watches the life leave its little frame. I know nothing else to do but pray for God's mercy! He is able~ to do what we can't even dream.
Dear Lord Jesus please have mercy!
What a trip. I love the picture of all the bags of food. Thank you, Jesus.
May the love of Jesus that was displayed by your team and those still on the field continue to feed bless and revive their hearts souls and bodies. In His Precious Name Kathy Knoblock
THank you so much for sharing that! It's cool and also equally sad to see the behind the scenes of what I see on TV. And my heart has always been for Afrcia! May God help them! I want to squeeze all of them!
Thank you for sharing with us the pictures. Each of us MUST do our part to help. We are the body of Christ and we need to be reaching these precious children, and their moms and dads. Lets step up - give when you can, go when you can, pray and ask our Heavenly Father to show you what you need to do. God Bless this ministry and all those who are trying so hard - Much love - Debbie
Wow. Those pictures are overwhelming. The werses Beth posted earlier from Isaiah pierced me to the core. Thank you for bringing attention to this heartbreaking story.
My heart is broken and full with the love of Jesus. Thank you for sharing these pictures. May God bless and feed their hearts, minds, and precious little tummies. Praise you Jesus for the work and love poured out on these sweet babies.
I look at these precious children and their worried moms and want to think of something profound to pray. Sometimes, there just aren't words for what you feel. Thankfully, He hears the groaning too.
I pray God continues to use this minstry in such a mighty way. We are so blessed, and we are privileged to be able to help.
Thanks for sharing
Adrienne
Oh, what precious children. It breaks my heart to think of them going hungry and getting sick. They are all so beautiful. It is the firstn day of school here and my youngest's fifth birthday. She's going to kindergarten for the first time. It's a big day for her. And for mom. She's got a brand new outfit on that her grandma bought her and she looks so cute. Anyway, I have to take them to the bus in a minute, so I'm going to go now.
I'm happy and sad at the same time... thank you Beth and LT for doing what you do :)
Only in the midst of this kind of grief can we truly appreciate hope.
I can't even imagine the joy the mother's of those babies must feel when they see you coming...These slides truly marked my soul!
Those pictures are very overwhelming to see. It really does make you appreciate even more what you have! We take way too many things for granted! What a blessing though to be able to see the sweet little faces of those that Life Outreach is helping. There is definitely a difference being made to improve the lives of these children!
I was just thanking God this morning for all of the blessings in my life....first of all for Jesus in my life...all my life. I've never not known of His love. I am blessed to have wonderful healthy parents (in their 70's, two healthy children, a godly son-in-law, a godly husband, a good job, a nice home....cool in the summer, warm in the winter, vehicles, wonderful friends, family, church family & always plenty of food and enjoyment in life.
It always breaks my heart for those who don't have as much. I don't take it for granted though. I am so thankful. It is only by the grace of God I'm where I am. I will continue to pray for this ministry and Life Today.
I know when I was little I would see pictures like these and think it was sad and all, but the older I get and realize how blessed I am and our country is as a whole, it makes me feel different.
Thanks for sharing the pictures. It's difficult to see, but necessary to know what's going on in other parts of the world.
Love all of you guys!
Dearest Beth...
I just watched Life Today and it was your teaching on being filled up with Christ...you walked around with the measuring cup and talked about how Christ is the one thing and one thing only that fill us up. It was just an AWESOME teaching!!! Having just finished "Breaking Free" in the Spring, when I hear the words out of Isaiah, I just want to jump up and scream "Hallelujah! We are free! Christ has set us free!"
Your teaching on this just fell fresh on me today and I just am so grateful for your dedication and committment to furthering the Kingdom. You also have inspired us to get beyond ourselves and help others....whether it's in Angola or in your own backyard....we are called to do both!!!
Bless you sweet Beth! I'll see you in Nashville.....I'm dying to go "Deeper Still." You are in my prayers.
Blessings to you and all you do!
Thank you for your faithfulness to this ministry. I watch it on Life for Today- you are such a blessing!
Sue
Every time I see something like this, I have to stop and wonder why this is not me and my children??? The only answer I can come up with is GRACE! Thank you Lord, for your benefits that you DAILY load us with. Please forgive us of our selfishness. Thank you Beth, for giving us a humble reminder we so desperately need.
We surely do take our blessings here for granted. Thank you Beth for being brave for going and for sharing.
Wow. Thank you for the visual reminder of how so many people are in need. Thank you for going, for being the feet of Jesus to those beautiful people. May this inspire more to get involved in helping those less fortunate, both here and abroad. Thank you.
Beautiful, heartbreaking pictures.. I would love to hear Beth's thoughts on the recent revelations about Mother Theresa. I was really disturbed by what I've read. How could someone so committed to God not sense his presence for years? It was frightening to me.
Any chance Beth would address that on the blog?
The picture of Fernando is heartbreaking. Thank you for the pictures. If we wanted to be part of a team, how does that happen? A bunch of us siestas could go- how about it AJ? Thank you for sharing this burden with us- I personally think every one who is able should go on a missions trip at least once in their life. As a former MK (Missionary Kid) I can tell you first hand, lives really can be changed!
Love you-
Lisa in Kirkland
Wow, this is so powerful and I am going to share this with my children. We want so much to go as a family on a missions trip to Africa. May God use us all to His glory.
This slide show is beautiful.
the hands and feet of God's creation are simply beautiful.
Amanda, thank you for posting these heart wrenching photos for us. I have never been on a missions trip, nor have I ever seen in such numbers the desperation that these little ones have in their eyes. It makes me realize just how naive I have been to the fact that such pain truly exists when my pantry is overflowing. I thank all who worked on this effort and gave of their time and love in Jesus name.
To be the Hands and Feet of Jesus... how beautiful is the body of Christ!
Watching the slide show blessed my heart and broke my heart all at the same time. It was a blessing to see the children being fed, knowing I had a small part in it with contributions to Life Outreach. Just curious though, what are the children eating?
This breaks my heart --we are in the process of adopting our third child but second child from Guatemala and I can't even look at these pictures without crying--I wish there was more I could do--I would take them all home if I could
I just got done watching Wednesday's with Beth.
Beth, I love you. You came to me via OnePlace.com last summer during my darkest days. I would rise go straight to my computer turn you on and listen to God's hope for me and my husbands brokenness for our wayward children. Your ministry has been integral to our life in supernatural ways. God, to no suprise, has been faithful to us and has held us close.
Tonight we placed an amount in our weekly budget for Life, then I checked out todays blog and bingo, Life pictures. God's affirmation!
I have such excitement in my heart for paydays to come.
Love from Michigan
What an awesome ministry! Just tugs at my heart strings! Thanks for sharing theh pics!
Lord, may our hearts remember these faces when we are tempted to grumble and complain about our days. Thank you, Beth and Amanda, for this visual reminder of our call to serve in a hurting world.
These people have such beauty about them, and it breaks my heart that they live like they do...thankyou for sharing the pics. We are so spoiled in the US, and we don't even know what that means to be hungry..really hungry. Praying for God to send more people, and send more money and food. HE could send me, I would go.
The lines and lines of kids were what overwhelmed me. How hard it must be for them to wait with empty stomaches. We're upset when there's 5 cars ahead of us at the drive-thru fast food places. How incredible that must have been to be a part of that. Makes me want to give more.
Mmmm, I guess I'm not the only one weeping. My heart is full of compassion and gratitude. Thank you for sharing the slideshow, and for opening a window into the lives of these precious brothers and sisters who suffer.
It's so easy to sit in our comfortable homes and to forget that there is a world out there in need.
Thank you!
Oh, they are all so beautiful....Beth darlin....I just want to tell you how stinkin awesome you are and anointed to do what you do. A few weeks ago my mom and i attended the Women of Faith Conference in Atlanta and i had the awesome pleasure of hearing you all day friday....and you just rock my socks girl!!!That little boy that you shared the story about that was healed just broke my heart and I had to go sponsor a little girl myself...I just love you and all you do for God it is flat out amazing!!!!Praise beautiful, wonderful, powerful JESUS!!!!
it is so neat to see others in Africa, my in laws were missionaries in Zambia. i love seeing all that god is doing in Africa the people are truly amazing
courtney in missouri
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