Meet Our Friend Enoch…
Swazis often greet strangers from another country with the words “my friend.” I like that.
Truly you are friends of Swaziland as you generously donate to The Luke Commission and God’s work there. Thank you for seeing beyond what is familiar and even understandable.
Earlier this year, Echo introduced me to Enoch, a community leader at one of TLC’s bush clinics. Enoch pointed at Echo and said, “You still have your mother. This is good.”
Then Enoch declared: “When Echo dies and someone asks what she did with her life, people will say ‘She restored Swaziland!’”
These types of trust and tribute would never surface without your support and prayers. It’s not always so.
Sometimes community and tribal leaders are unreliable and suspicious. But as Echo noted, “You travel a country enough and you find caring, kind tender souls. You cannot paint a culture with one brush.”
Thank you for not giving up on a culture that is fighting for its very existence as AIDS and related diseases attack whole families. The death and infection statistics are staggering, but The Luke Commission workers there and here at home refuse to give up. For that we are grateful.
“Not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord Almighty.” Zechariah 4:6
Appreciatively in Jesus,
Janet Tuinstra for The Luke Commission