Today we went out to distribute food that was donated from Pick-n-Pay. As always the food was mainly an excuse to go out and visit people, many of them folks that were at the VIP banquet last Saturday. To see the faces light up as we approached, to see their excitement to have visitors who pray for them and encourage them, was a blessing to us. There’s one granny, we call her “Baba Gogo” because she always thanks baba—which means daddy, referring to God. She is so thankful and jumps around and claps her hands when we come (next time we go to her house we’re taking video, as there’s no other way to do it justice).

Of course the food is actually important as well; many of the people we visited said they hadn’t eaten all day. One granny said she was so hungry she ate the 30 bananas we had dropped off a few weeks before, which, not surprisingly, made her stomach run. While she told us laughing about it, it’s also sad. It makes me wonder what she does on the days we don’t show up with food.

It’s a true privilege to visit the “least of these” in the township. To pray with them, to encourage them. I know we’ll look back on this year and these times of serving will stand out among all the other wonderful memories. As one man who was serving with us said, “Today we went out to practice love.”

Related posts:

1. Serving The Poor On Saturday
2. Melting My Heart
3. Walking With The Poor

Filed under: General by Nathan on October 15th, 2008, blind, feeding scheme, poor, poverty