Abandoned-Orphaned (Paul Myhill)

Beans & Dragons

Thanks everybody for your prayers concerning our Africa trip. Unfortunately I did not have Internet access for blog posts as we stayed in very Spartan lodgings. Seventeen guys sharing one toilet is not a pretty thing at all. Couple that with daily meals of rice, cabbage and beans and…well…you get the picture.

We also spent some time in a mud hut community on an island in Lake Victoria. Again, very basic accommodations with your standard hole in the ground latrine outside, rat droppings on your mosquito net, komodo dragons roaming about, and…yes…rice, cabbage and beans that were boiled in polluted, parasite-ridden lake waters.

Anybody care to come along next time?

Africa Bound

I'm leaving today on my tenth trip to Africa in recent years. I'll be traveling with a World Orphans team of nineteen people to Kenya and Uganda as we kick off our new "Journey 117" initiative.

I would greatly appreciate your prayers for our travels and for our families while we are gone.

I hope to post updates to this blog but, due to the nature of this specific trip (staying at orphan homes and camping in a tribal area), I will have very limited access to Internet.

Thanks so much!

Paul

Community Solutions (part four)

I fear that many Christian orphan rescue and care ministries are getting swayed by the publications of secular organizations and governmental bodies. These behemoth groups follow overly-academic paths and analyses that are devoid of God; that place culture above truth. Culture is ideed important and efforts should be taken to preserve it where it doesn't conflict with truth. But let's be clear: truth should always triumph; truth should always be the rpiority.

These secular/governmental organizations are espousing ‘holistic’ community solutions. But because man is also a spiritual being, holism has to include the spiritual needs of the individual within the community. These spiritual needs have to met with truth, not culture; the Gospel, not false religion. Only then are the holistic needs truly met.

In a very real sense, the Church is the only holistic solution in the community.

...And the Church is the family and community-based solution!

To be continued...