{"id":6424,"date":"2010-06-12T10:31:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T10:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/06\/great-news-about-swaziland.html"},"modified":"2010-06-12T10:31:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T10:31:02","slug":"great-news-about-swaziland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/06\/great-news-about-swaziland.html","title":{"rendered":"Great News about Swaziland!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/assets_c\/2010\/06\/MabChildHopeChest-14708.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/120\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/06\/MabChildHopeChest-thumb-250x293-14708.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"293\" alt=\"MabChildHopeChest.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span>Many of you know that the Jesus Creed blog is raising funds for the orphans of Mabanteneni in Swaziland. Well, here&#8217;s some good news: four more children have been sponsored in the last two or three weeks and we are thrilled! Thank you to those who are sponsoring these incredibly needy children.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, once again, I hope you will ponder and pray over sponsoring a child at only 34 dollars per month.&nbsp;Our hope is to use this blog space to urge readers to consider sponsoring a child in Swaziland, a land in desperate need of services like Hope Chest. &nbsp;As of the writing of this post, 19 children have been &#8220;adopted&#8221; and there are 6 more in need of adoption (but Tom Davis at Hope Chest will find more if we can sponsor them). &nbsp;Please think if this is a ministry of which you would like to be a part.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Yes, there are needs everywhere, not the least in Haiti and with the homeless here in the USA. 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