Village Bible Church || Aurora | Indian Creek | Sugar Grove | IL

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Hi church family!

This past month in Africa has been an amazing month. When we arrived we did clinics in the rural parts of Swaziland every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The smallest number of people we served during one of these clinics was 300 people, and the largest was about 1,000! It was an amazing opportunity to practically show the love of Christ to the people of Swaziland. We gave free medical care to everyone who came as well as free eye glasses to everyone who needed them. It was amazing to see the people sing and dance in happiness about their new medications and eyeglasses! It was a huge blessing to me to be able to meet these needs for the people. We also shared the Gospel with everyone who came to the clinics. Many times we gave away Bible?s in Siswati (their national language) and the people were so thankful for even the chance to read the Bible. We had the amazing opportunity to give out Operation Christmas Child boxes at a few of the schools we visited. It was amazing to see the children get so excited over a pencil or a pair of underwear. It was very convicting to me about how much we have here in the US and how sometimes we can become ungrateful. We also built wheelchairs for people who were disabled and could not walk! It was amazing to build something that would allow these people to be self sufficient again. One man who came to get a wheel chair had been pushed in a wheel burrow for 20 years by his son, and the wheel chair brought a sense of life back to him. The first thing he did when he received this gift was thank God alone, what a heart! I learned a lot from the Swazi people. We were also able to work in the hospital in Manzini where I worked in Labor and Delivery ward. I delivered a baby all by myself which was an amazing experience and I loved it! I was also able to help with about 20 other deliveries. Unfortunately, the country is devastated with HIV/AIDS as 47% of their people are positive for this terrible disease and 20% of their population is orphaned because of HIV/AIDS. Please continue to pray for the country and healing which only God can bring to them. Thank you so much for all your prayers and support for this trip. You all made a huge difference in my life as well as the lives of many Swazi people!

In Christ alone,

Bridget Buenz