Jesus Loves me - Feb 2023
Valentine's Day is all about love (ok, and maybe about a bit of chocolate too!) so with Valentine's weekend upon us, I thought I'd share an experience I had last week that reminded me of love. I had a pastor from Toronto visit who wanted to see the work of Villages of Hope in Tanzania. I took him around the main location near Mwanza, and then we went to the satellite center in Bulale. It is about 45 minutes from the center of town, and in a very poor community area. It was a great visit - we saw the children playing, having their tasty lunch and the grade 5 girls were getting vaccinated (some of them sure didn't like the needle!) Then we visited a couple of the classrooms. As we did, the children decided they wanted to sing to us. First, we were in the reception class, and later we went to see the children in grade 5. Without any coercion or pre-planning, both classes decided to sing the same song. Guess what they sang? .... Jesus loves me! To me, this is what the Go