2019 marks the 10th anniversary of Project Canaan. It’s
hard to believe that we have lived in Swaziland longer than we lived in
Georgia, but it’s true.
When we bought the 2,500 acres of land in 2009 there were no roads,
no fields, no buildings, no electricity, no dams, in fact, there wasn’t even
road access to the property. Today we
have 60+ buildings including homes, schools, barns, vocational training,
medical clinic, not to mention 197 (really cute!) children who call Project Canaan home!
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| Face painting at Camp Canaan 2018 |
Next July we will be hosting a very special trip to celebrate 10
years of HOPE and registration is open today! The team will depart from the US/Canada
on Saturday, July 13th and depart from Swaziland on Monday, July 22nd.
We have limited space available, so it
will fill on a first come first serve basis.
The “ground costs” for the trip are $1,800 US (not including flights).
You can book your own travel or secure a seat through us.
This trip will be packed full with time spent
on Project Canaan (including Camp Canaan with our children), homestead visits, and
a time of real celebration on HOPE mountain! We will have a formal celebration
of the 10 years on the afternoon of Thursday, July 18th, which will include
Swazi dignitaries from government, hospitals, police and local partners.
We will spend two days at some of our partner churches doing "well child
check-ups" as well as delivering a wonderful celebratory meal for the
children, complete with a 10th anniversary cake.
Sunday will be the highlight of the week
featuring "Music on the Mountain!" We will take our volunteers,
Emseni children and staff to the top of HOPE mountain for a music concert
complete with some North Point Community Church musicians (Seth Condrey and
Chinua Hawk) as well as other worship teams and Swazi musicians. The
communities from all around Project Canaan will be invited to attend and we will
provide a hot meal (cooked by our local church partners) to everyone who comes
to worship with us.
Have you been thinking of taking a volunteer
mission trip to Swaziland, but just never took the step? Have you traveled with
us in the past and want to come back and celebrate the progress that has been
made? Then this is definitely the trip
for you!
Ian and I live a complicated, yet wonderful
life here in Swaziland. We deal with
life and death, friendship and betrayal, violent crime and people being healed,
and none of it is easy. But we love watching the hand of God every single day and
we stand in awe of His goodness and grace.
Why wouldn’t you want to come and see all that God has done and
celebrate His goodness? This is a long
weekend for many people so please take the time to think and pray about this and
if you are to come, please register at this link:
Ian and I hope that you will join us in celebrating hope in 2019.
Live from Swaziland … it’s Saturday morning!
Janine
Is there any information on birth control? Is there a clinic where women can get birth control pills or injections? Swaziland is very small and if there is a population explosion, it will be hard to feed everyone.
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