This is Tumé he is one of the boys at the "Lesedi home" for children with HIV/AIDS, we went as a team today to watch a few of the children while the others were getting treated at the clinic. We played in the sand, but that didn't seem to be enough so we added water and Tumé went crazy! He was laughing so hard, it was the simple act of getting dirty that he loved. We had to wash the kids in the hose outside before we were allowed in the home. I love the children's laugh, for some reason it is the sweetest sound, only in the fact that these children have been left with nothing and expected to die. This will blow your mind but it is reality here, many mother's will have the babies but then throw them in the out house and are left there to die. It is only God's grace that some of them are found in time. It breaks my heart in places I can't even speak of. So when I see one of these little ones laughing, it touches me deeply. I am also adding prayer request to this blog. We are in deep and need to be covered in prayer.

When we all came to Africa we were warned about the spiritual warfare we would encounter.
  I don't think we took this lightly as much as we were too naïve to take it as serious as we should have.
  Now that we are here, we are experiencing things, our families are experiencing things and these things are spiritual and can only be battled in the spiritual realm.
  That is why we are writing, to build a prayer support.
  We don't know how to say this lightly, but we need people to commit to fight for us in their prayer and not just casually lift us up.
  We have entered warfare, and it is a more intense thing than any of us have ever seen.
  We were told it would be more intense and obvious, but that is always a preface for trips.
  Since being here we are seeing the effects of the warfare.
  Driving down the road you will see tape around trees that are a curse for accidents that the Satanist put there.
  In the townships there are witch doctors who dedicate their lives to Satan.
  People go to them for healing and many of them are taught to put curses on others.
  Just last week we prayed for a baby whose cousin put a curse of "death" on her, we prayed in the name of Jesus for her life and that curse be cancelled- she was healed!
  We have even seen satanic alters made over the townships we are ministering at.
  It is vital that as we minister we have a team of prayer warriors covering us in prayer and speaking out life over this country.
 
 The thing is, the people here are very connected to the spiritual.
  Their power is coming from darkness though.
  They believe in the spiritual realm and so it shows up.
  I know that this is hard to imagine in the States, believe us, it is hard to understand being in the face of it.
  But the more we see things happening around us, people being healed from sicknesses put on them by a witch doctor or people being released from oppression, the more we see the reality of the enemy working in this place against the work God has planned.
  Please pray as we face this everyday.
  This letter is not written out of fear, for we know we are more than conquerors through Him who loves us, but it is a letter for the body to specifically pray for the Kingdom of light to come.