Wonder Women

A few days ago we were visiting one of the in-progress building sites of another CarePoint, this one in Makholweni, Swaziland. What I encountered both surprised and blessed me.









Half the volunteer crew were women!










There was Ben (our son-in-law, ace missionary, head of Children's Cup in Africa and father to three of our awesome grandchildren) standing on a scaffolding of sorts, working right along with the rest of the guys, sloshing cement on the concrete block walls of our soon-to-be CarePoint.

And right in front of me were the women of the community shoveling and sifting sand to be mixed with the cement to be made into the concrete they were using on the walls. (Ben says these women out-work the men!)

Everyone pulls together to get the community CarePoint and running. Then when it's time to fix the food, more volunteers come and cook.

Also volunteering are the Bible Club teachers, school teachers, camp counselors for Patrick and medical assistants for Teresa. One CarePoint even has a volunteer gardener who grows vegetables for the kids' meals and planted flowers around the building to make it a very beautiful place.

The kids always win when it's done this way.

Servant's hearts--in action!