adventurescga-blogs Jun 30, 2007 8:00 PM

Hope in a hopeless situation

After writting the last blog about Donzula and having to leave Swaziland my heart broke!  Everything in me didnt want to leave this precious litt...

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After writting the last blog about Donzula and having to leave Swaziland my heart broke!  Everything in me didnt want to leave this precious little girl!  But I had to go and so I prayed that God would hold her in his arms and keep her until someone else could come and be the arms of Jesus and wrap thier arms around her and love her.  Well, One of my good friends Chris Telfer who is on the world race right now was heading to swaziland and so I contacted him and said, "please Find her."  Well here is a post from Christ Telfers Blog.

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Three weeks ago while we were finishing up our time in Dondo, Mozambique I opened up an email from my friend Cassie Morgan. She was finishing up her time in Swaziland,Africa and was about to head back to the States. She shared what the Lord had been doing in her heart and how he had broke her for a little orphan girl named Donzula.




It just so happened that my team was going to be in Swaziland in a few days and although I would not be able to see her, she invited me to share a piece of the Lords heart with her. In the email she explained she had found this little girl who needed Love. She had been caring for little Donzula for a while now and now that she was leaving she wanted me find this little orphan and care for her. Something in me was touched and I was determined to find her.

Praying as I closed the email, thinking our time in Swaziland would be short, I said, "If you want this Lord, then make it happen." Within three days of our debrief we were told for the next five weeks to find our own ministry and walk by faith. The Lord had now given us the time and freedom to find her. Since then we have talked to a bunch of different people, found a place to stay about five minutes from the community we think she was at and our ready to find the Lords one. I love how our God searches us out one by one and captures our hearts. How he loving takes us into his hand, looks us in the eyes and breathes life.


So far I will be honest the race has been tough. Things get dry at times and tiresome and sometimes it's hard being around the same people all the time. You eat, sleep and share the same air with them. Being church not going to church is a whole lot harder than I could have ever imagined. After six months of outreaches, church gatherings, group meetings, debriefs, and prayer meetings, you would think we would have a clearer view of what the word Church means. What I do know is that we continue where one saint stops. That the walls are built by the masses not by the one and the most important thing is to be loved by the one who gave his life for the masses. If all I can do is find her, pick her up, look her in the eyes and say "Hello, I'm Cassies friend." Then it's worth it because Christ is worth it. We have a chance to be the Lords hands and feet so pray that we find little Donzula. Pray the Lord teach us through this journey what it means to be Church.  What it means to be family. What is means to be a saint."

After reading this my heart lept with excitment and so I started praying that they would find her.  Here is the end result.  This is a post from Seth Barnes blog about this whole thing.

" The following story is why we do what we do: releasing the next generation to hear from God, on their own, and bring "Kingdom" to the world. Enjoy…

Cassie Morgan is one of our staff members with AIM that has been in Swazi for some time… she was going home last month and asked one of our World Racers,
Chris Telfer
, to find a little orphan girl named Donzula for her; this is Donzula. She is four years old and lives out in the bush somewhere in Swaziland, Africa and that is all Chris knew.

When Cassie met Donzula, she found her living in a ditch, bleeding in places she should not be bleeding and completely orphaned. Our World Racer was in Mozambique and Cassie sent him the email saying, "When you arrive in Swazi, will you PLEASE go and find her?" Here is the story from Chris:

"I prayed and asked God, and all He said was 'Find her!' I had NO idea where she was, and so I started asking local pastors and people if they knew a little girl named Donzula. After 2 1/2 to 3 weeks of asking people, and 3 days out in the bush, I showed her picture to a go-go (grandma that takes care of the orphans here), and she said, 'I know where she is.' So, yesterday, one of the local pastors took our team from homestead to homestead, searching desperately for this child of God… as we where showing her picture a 7 to 9 year-old boy, he just took off running. I watched him as he ran over one hill then the next, and then he disappeared. 5 Minutes later, out in the distance, I see this boy running towards us with someone on his back; my heart start beating, my spirit start singing, and I knew this piggy-back-riding little girl was our little girl."

Chris says through an interpreter, "I am Cassie's friend." Donzula smiles and raises her arms towards Chris.

"I picked her up, and the Lord said, 'Hand her to
Erin
, [one of our other racers],' and Erin's heart broke. She said, 'It's only happened a couple times, but the Lord placed Donzula's heart into mine, and I could not contain my emotions!'"

Donzula is now a part of our ever growing family here… thank you Cassie, Chris, Erin and Jesus; wouldn't want to do this without you."

Cassie Morgan is one of our staff members with AIM that has been in Swazi for some time… she was going home last month and asked one of our World Racers,
Chris Telfer
, to find a little orphan girl named Donzula for her; this is Donzula. She is four years old and lives out in the bush somewhere in Swaziland, Africa and that is all Chris knew.

When Cassie met Donzula, she found her living in a ditch, bleeding in places she should not be bleeding and completely orphaned. Our World Racer was in Mozambique and Cassie sent him the email saying, "When you arrive in Swazi, will you PLEASE go and find her?" Here is the story from Chris:

"I prayed and asked God, and all He said was 'Find her!' I had NO idea where she was, and so I started asking local pastors and people if they knew a little girl named Donzula. After 2 1/2 to 3 weeks of asking people, and 3 days out in the bush, I showed her picture to a go-go (grandma that takes care of the orphans here), and she said, 'I know where she is.' So, yesterday, one of the local pastors took our team from homestead to homestead, searching desperately for this child of God… as we where showing her picture a 7 to 9 year-old boy, he just took off running. I watched him as he ran over one hill then the next, and then he disappeared. 5 Minutes later, out in the distance, I see this boy running towards us with someone on his back; my heart start beating, my spirit start singing, and I knew this piggy-back-riding little girl was our little girl."

Chris says through an interpreter, "I am Cassie's friend." Donzula smiles and raises her arms towards Chris.

"I picked her up, and the Lord said, 'Hand her to
Erin
, [one of our other racers],' and Erin's heart broke. She said, 'It's only happened a couple times, but the Lord placed Donzula's heart into mine, and I could not contain my emotions!'"

Donzula is now a part of our ever growing family here… thank you Cassie, Chris, Erin and Jesus; wouldn't want to do this without you."

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