{"id":482,"date":"2007-06-17T03:00:27","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T03:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2007\/06\/orphans-orphans.html"},"modified":"2007-06-17T03:00:27","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T03:00:27","slug":"orphans-orphans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2007\/06\/orphans-orphans.html","title":{"rendered":"Orphans, Orphans, Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Sunday morning and I am writing you from Manzini, Swaziland. The amount of death and destruction we have seen in this country is unreal. More and more, we are seeing the devastating effects of a country whose HIV infection rate is 46%. There are funerals everywhere and orphans by the hundreds in every community we are in.<\/p>\n<p>We have been ministering in what is known as &#8216;The Low Velt&#8217; of Swaziland. This is an area right on the border of South Africa and Mozambique. It&#8217;s very poor, there isn&#8217;t much water, and food is in scarce supply. It just heart-breaking to see the numbers of widows trying to care for 8, 10, or 15 orphans in a tiny little hut with no support and no food of their own. Starting tomorrow we are beginning a carepoint from scratch. We&#8217;ll start feeding the orphans in the community under a tent (the one I preached in from a video blog a few days ago), with a cast iron pot. We excited to get some of our programs underway in such a desperate place.<\/p>\n<p>We found 95 orphans living alone who hadn&#8217;t eaten anything in 3 weeks. I&#8217;ll be sending updates and pictures from that place to. <\/p>\n<p>Have a great week everyone and please continue to pray for us. At this point, I am very weary from going 90 mph everyday. The family is great and in good health. No one has been sick! Happy Father&#8217;s Day to all of you incredible dads!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Sunday morning and I am writing you from Manzini, Swaziland. The amount of death and destruction we have seen in this country is unreal. More and more, we are seeing the devastating effects of a country whose HIV infection rate is 46%. 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