We’re thrilled to share our latest adventures with you! We recently arrived in Motshane, Eswatini, where we were warmly welcomed by our dear friends, Dr. Lewis and Maggie Chomba. The Chombas are Zambian missionaries who have dedicated their lives to serving the community through various ministries, including pastoring a church, running a care center for orphans and vulnerable children, a preschool, a feeding program giving 600 meals to kids each week, and a farm.  Dr Lewis is also the President of Eswatini College of Theology. They are pillars of faithfulness on their steep hill and the entire community is blessed by them!  We have known and loved their family for almost 2 decades and have seen dozens of children grow up in the Hope House Care Center.  

We haven’t done as well as we would have liked at staying in touch all these years, but when we are together, it feels like no time has passed.   We arrived in Motshane, Eswatini on Friday afternoon and I shared a quick kid’s message, and we played with the 120+ kids who came for a free after school meal at Hope House Care Point.  

On Saturday morning, Dan was given a chance to share in the chapel service at the theological college on ministering to people with addictions and it was a massive success.  We are discussing whether we could be a part of teaching in the spiritual emphasis week next year and how the college could add in a class on ministering to the addicted somehow.  Despite the rainy, chilly day, it was a brilliant morning.  

Lewis took us all to see the improvements at Hope House Farm which is primarily a piggery and they also have quite a few other animals (goats, chickens, turkeys) as their source of meat for all their different ministries.  

They are stewarding their resources well and stretching everything as much as possible, but they do need more of us to come alongside and help them financially.  They currently do not receive any money from the government for the 7 extra teens they have living with them at Hope House Children’s Home.  They pay out of their own finances for feeding all those big boys as well as their school fees and more.  The preschool they opened has so many children attending who are impoverished and not able to pay any tuition, so the teacher isn’t receiving a salary right now and they support her as they can through food donations.  Despite the financial challenges, they are constructing another building to be able to have more children attend their preschool.

The family’s primary home needs a few upgrades and quite a few repairs are needed at the Care Center.  There are 8 cabins which are the bedrooms and then a larger all-purpose room which is used as a kitchen and living room.  These buildings were constructed around 25 years ago and some maintenance and upkeep are essential to make sure they will continue to be usable for years to come.  The living room roof blew off in a storm and damaged the interior and electrical.  The exterior needs some waterproofing and a new coat of paint, they need a water tank, a pressure pump, a few windows need some glass, and some of the beds for the children need replacing.  

What they need most of all is your prayers!  Please will you lift up Lewis and Maggie and all the teens they are currently caring for?  Will you ask the Lord to richly bless them and give them deep rest and spiritual refreshment?  Please pray that the teens will come to know and love Jesus as their Savior and Lord.  Please also pray for abundant provision for their ministries and for new financial partners and monthly donors to rise up.  Perhaps you can be one of them?!  We would also love to take teams to Eswatini in the future – it would be a brilliant place to do a bunch of work projects and also to love a LOT of kids!

Dan and I are working in partnership with Hope House and our friend Simone to create a new website for them.  Hopefully it will be ready soon and then donations can go directly to their account.  In the meantime, if you would like to send money now, you can donate to Magezi Ministries and put HOPE HOUSE on the memo line and we will forward it to them.