Thanks for your patience!

So much has changed over the past couple years since this blog began...I needed to take time to remove some "old" photo's replace with current ones and re-do the background!! I am sure for those of you who read this, it isn't a huge change but somehow it feels like a new beginning for Simple Hope!!!

After returning from the most wonderful trip YET, I wanted to get things in order on this blog!! The saying: "Be still and know that I am God" sure has deep meaning for me and what we are striving for with Simple Hope.

In the beginning of my work, I had thought that I was going to be providing help to a village called Mwika, this WAS NOT the plan for me or Simple Hope and I am so Thankful I listened and was patient with what God had planned for me!! Sometimes we think we know all there is to know then if we "sit and be still" we find out there is a whole different and BETTER plan awaiting us!! God had identified with my heart long before I knew it, but he knew my compassion ran much deeper than what Mwika had to offer me. He knew that I wanted to reach out to the "least of the least" and provide help and hope to these forgotten people. I should have know and trusted that this was the path!!

I have secured wonderful partnerships with the "sisters" who are helping me run a food program for a group of children who are economically destitute. These children are enrolled at a government run school and the government does NOT supply them even with Ugali which is cornmeal and water mixture! So I observed, on my last trip how tired, and listless these children were. I will explain in a follow up blog about their day, but it was clear as a bright day how much our food and help was needed.

Unexpectedly, I was also shown two more groups of people who need help with Simple Hope!! We traveled once again to Singida whereby, we were able to see God's work and where he needed us and our love! Sharing our love and hope with the lepers and the Hadzabe brought me to my knees. I am humbled and the pictures of their needs are not leaving my mind! I am forever changed and humbled.

I am glad for my knowledge of "sitting and being still" because it was in these times, I heard my calling very clear ~ and now I know where our help is needed more than any other place in Tanzania!

Until next time~

Cheers!