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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 2 – Intermediate)
Topic: Evangelism (11/01/07)
She didn’t think much would come out of this trip to Africa. After all, it was just one of those mission trips abroad that were organized annually by her home church. So on the material day as she bade her family goodbye, she hoped she would see them again in two months. The long flight from the USA, coupled with the stopovers did nothing to prepare her for her first visit to Africa. She could only imagine what it would be like from the stories she had heard and what she’d managed to read. So when the plane landed in the African city she’d be visiting she was all anxious for what lay ahead.
The airport was nothing like home. The hot African sun welcomed her into an all together new world to her. She would be staying in a children’s home, where she’d help manage the affairs concerning more than 200 children orphaned by AIDS. But nothing had quite prepared her for her first sight of the home. Children, between the ages of one month to 16years, with no one else in the world were brought here. Some were so traumatized by the loss of their parents they barely clung to any new hope in their lives. Some babies had been picked from the most unlikely places, left to die by relatives too burdened with their own cares to fed for them. She was introduced to the children, one by one who despite their predicament could afford to smile up at her and cling to her hand for friendship.
She instantly knew that this was going to be a challenge. But she would be happy doing what she felt called to do here. So as she unpacked in a single cubicle she’d be sharing with about 30 girls she tried hard not to compare this with the luxury back home. One particular boy aged about 9 years managed to endear himself to her in her first week at the home. He had full blown AIDS, so suffered dreadful coughing, lack of appetite and mouth sores. But in between his coughs he’d hold out his hand to her and attempt a smile. Looking at him so miserable, clinging on to life despite the lack of drugs and the pathetic living conditions, Amber vowed in her heart to do all she could including reaching out to all those well wishers back home, anyone who’d be willing to add another day to all those innocent children’s lives. That would be her way of evangelizing Christ’s love by touching the lives of these deserving children. The verse Matthew 25:40 kept playing in her mind `whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’
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Debbie Wistrom
11/08/07
Liked the story very much after Amber got to Africa. Not familiar with what is involved with mission trips the term "material day" made me read that part over a couple of times.
Christine Rhee
11/10/07
good, catchy title and interesting topic. Break this into paragraphs as it will be easier to read and hold the attention of your audience. This could easily developed into a longer piece quite successfully. All the best to you and keep working at it!!
LauraLee Shaw
11/15/07
What an absolutely heart-wrenching scene! Bless those who sacrifice themselves to reach hurting people in an environment such as this.