Amazima

So, after reading about Amazima’s ministry and feeding program for the last year I finally was able to see with my own eyes.  Over 300 hundred precious sponsored children from the Jinja area come for the day to hear a bible lesson, worship, eat, and take home rice, beans, and flour for the week.  They stay for the majority of the day and play and get loved on by the staff there, or mission teams like us.  It was wonderful to see what an impact this ministry is having on the community.

Katie Davis, the executive director, was there and it was great to see her in action:) She was busy busy running around saying hello to the Amazima team, fetching band-aids for child's scrape, scooping up and loving on the few babies there, but I did get to introduce myself (no I didn't faint:) and later in the day she sat down with our team and told us her story and what the plans are for Amazima in the future.  For any of you who have read her blog, she is how you would imagine and even more.

While we were there an old women came with a tiny tiny baby.  They think he was around 7 months old and weighed around 6 pounds.  The beautiful old women, the baby’s grandmother, said the mother had died and she was caring for him but didn’t have a way to feed him.  This is not an unusual event, grandparents caring for children who's parents died, or not having a way to feed a child.

Katie disappeared into the house with them for awhile, assessing the situation. When she came out she walked over to Brad, the only other white employee at Amazima, and said with a huge smile, “I have to break the rule.”  Although she has very little room at her home and previously agreed not to take in anyone else in for a months time, she couldn’t resist.  When Katie left with her girls, the woman and the tiny malnourished baby went with them. She took them into her home to nurse there bodies and souls back to health.  She is a humble servant of God, a blessing to her community, and more like Jesus than anyone I have ever met.  We could all learn something from her example.