This past month has been fun, long, hard, exciting, exhausting,
rewarding, encouraging and filled with hope.
I am always encouraged to meet people who say that they
start their Saturday mornings with a cup of coffee and this blog. Many of those people also follow me on
Facebook so when I write my weekly blog I try not to repeat what has already
been posted. That being said, for
those of you readers who don’t follow on Facebook, I want to be sure to give
you a short update on some of our favorite, and important moments from our time
in North America this past month.
I will start by saying that Ian and my hearts are in
Swaziland. The work that we do and
roles that we fill are more than full time jobs and we spend 100% of our time
focusing on all things “Project Canaan”, and we LOVE IT. So packing for 3 weather zones, to go
on 12 flights and stay in 9 different hotels/rooms in 4 weeks is not really our
idea of “fun” anymore.
That being said, this month was amazing and here are just a
few photos to give a glimpse of SOME of what we experienced.
The highlight is always seeing our 20-year old son Spencer,
and just hanging out and chatting with him. He is a remarkable young man, and
so much fun to "chill" with.
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| Love. |
We had a fantastic 12-days with
the Egg Farmers of Canada and Egg Farmers of Ontario as they officially
launched their partnership with Heart for Africa and their commitment to build
a Egg Farm on Project Canaan in 2015.
This photo is with the Canadian Minister of Agriculture.
We got some great media exposure and the links below are two worth
seeing/reading.
CTV News Segment:
The Toronto Star:
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| Tim Lambert (CEO EFC), Honourable Minister Gerry Ritz , Janine, Ian and Peter Lambert (Chairman of EFC) |
We visited with Ian’s family in Ottawa and always enjoy
seeing everyone and had the privilege of speaking at the West Ottawa Rotary
Club to thank them for their participation in the funding of the Living Water
Dam.
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| Diane and Jim Maxwell |
We got to visit my 84-year old mom, who lives in a
nursing home in Ontario and my cousin Kim who is my voice when I am not there.
Each time I see her I am so thankful that my mom is the reason that I believe in Jesus and have followed His path, and I am equally aware that each visit might be our last.
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| I love you mom. |
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| So thankful for my cousin Kim. |
We loved seeing old friends and work colleagues and enjoyed
getting caught up with their lives and families.
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| My besties... Dee Dee, Judy and Kathryn. |
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| So awesome to see Charlene, Sally and Diane (with Carol Kirk taking the photo). |
It seemed that this month was 4-weeks
of meeting for coffee, breakfast, lunch and dinner. Not ideal as we are
trying to lose weight, but so much fun to meet new people and hear
their stories.
From Canada we went back to Georgia for more time with Spencer and got to have amazing burgers with Chad and Amy Gregory as they search Atlanta for the very best hamburger experience.
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Our friends, Chad Gregory, CEO of the United Egg Producers, and his beautiful wife Amy.
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| Welcome North Point/Waumba Land team! |
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| Welcome Marsh family who want to commit to do something "more". |
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| Thank you Kim and David for your hospitality and generosity. |
We enjoyed seeing all of our friends at the MedAssets annual
conference in Las Vegas where we sold $4,800 in jewelry and recruited more
people to volunteer with us in 2016.
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| MedAssets conference with Board members, Sandra Green and Ned Lehman. |
On our final Sunday night we were a part of
a wonderful fundraising event with our inspirational friend Captain Jerry Coffee as the key note speaker. Our goal was to get more people to sign up as a monthly Angels and the event raised $24,000 to help with the monthly costs of raising our 91 babies. Maybe you
can help with that today?
https://heartforafrica.secure.force.com/pmtx/cmpgn__donations?id=701C0000000VFWR
The Grand Finale happened in Washington, DC, where we spent
time visiting Senator John McCain and then attended a magical evening that our
friends from UPS hosted in the beautiful UPS town house.
The goal of that event was to raise funds for us to start
our Hydroponic Greenhouse project to grow strawberries and tomatoes and this
mighty team raised $47,000+ for the project!
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| Such amazing friends - Janice Johnson and Teri McClure. |
Thursday night we got on a plane in DC, routed back through
Atlanta and then flew on to Johannesburg.
Today we woke up in South Africa and took one last flight to our beloved
Swaziland.
We are so thankful to all of our friends, family and
supporters who give selflessly and sacrificially help us provide for the
children at Project Canaan, and so many others around the country of Swaziland.
We are thankful to be home and we are feeling hopeful.
Live from Swaziland … it IS Saturday morning.
Janine
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