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8/6/2019 Swazi Newsletter
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What does
home mean
o you?
Home is a base
r heart of any amily where
lans and
uture are
eing birthed.”
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During our stay in South
Africa we had the blessing of
taying for a week with
Petros and Elizabeth Kunene in
Swaziland. They are two of the
most amazing and inspiring
people I’ve ever met with suchhuge hearts and a huge vision.
Petros and Elizabeth are
ormer YWAMers who were
nspired by the orphan crisis
while on an outreach to
Mozambique. They weren’t
ure exactly what helping out
with the crisis would look like
until Petros lost two of his
isters leaving their neices and
nephews orphaned. They
decided to step down from
YWAM and start Road To Hope
o look after the orphaned
hildren. They have 6 of their
own children and have taken in
7 of their nieces and nephews.
“We are hoping to see themgrow, see them fed, clothed,go to school. We see that Roa
to Hope will grow bigger, wehave already receivedapplicants of people wantinto send us orphans. We are nable to operate as anorphanage at this time, righnow it is a family thing.”
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This precious family is squeezi
13 people into a small house ofonly three rooms. Most childre
sleep two or three to a bed whi
others sleep on the oor. While
spending time with this family
one thing we noticed was their
joy. They have nothing but are
rich in love and selessness angrace for each other. One of my
teammates asked Petros which
these kids where his (referring
to biological children) and he
responded, they’re all mine :)
There is no division among the
children and Elizabeth shows s
amazing motherly love to them
We want the m to feel warm to feel thistheir place to know they belong.place where they can hide and where
hey can be found..
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They are living solely on support but the last few checks have
gotten lost in the mail. They must pay for school, food and clothes
or all these children. When I talked to them about it I was so
amazed by their faith, they just keep saying “We are trusting God
we are always praying he will provide.” They have such huge
aith. They are inspiring in the way they live out their vision and
ontinue what God has placed on their hearts even if they barely
have the means to do it.
Petros and Elizabeth are currently in the building process of
building another home on their property to house some of the
hildren and when that is nished they would like to start anothe
one on the other side and then hopefully re-do the main house
which is only made of sticks and mud. He said they were afraid it
wouldn’t even make it through the rainy season
Their biggest need right now is supporters who will come along si
of them and help to nance the building process so they can nish
and hopefully become a more functioning ministry. Petros’s heart
o big and my heart just broke for this family seeing the condition
hey lived in and seeing this amazing vision they are working
owards. I love this family so much and have left a piece of my hea
here. I hope to be able to support them in the future and stay in
ommunication with them. We grew so close over the week and
feel these are now my brothers and sisters to. I cant wait to see
hem grow up and I can’t wait to see how God is going to continue
use this incredible family!
[Here is the almost
nished house they
are building. We
stayed in tents inside
the frame]
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Our vision is to help make the dreamsf these children come to reality.
We know they have dreams and ashildren you depend on your parents.o it became aware to us that after they ost their parents to them its like their reams had vanished completely. So
we are here to revive that, we are here
o show them there is still hope this ishe way to their success.”
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This family is very dear to my heart and I would love to
see them be fully supported and functioning as well as
have the means to nish building. Please please please
oin me and prayer for Petros and Elizabeth and their
sweet children. We are working on creating them a blog with a donate button but if you have of on your heart to
give, contact me and I can help get the money to them.
ALSO consider “adopting” one of their children in
prayer :) There are the 11 children pictured above as
well as three more 18yr olds not pictured. They are
excepting teams as well, so if you or a group from yourchurch would love to visit Petros and Elizabeth and
help ght the orphan crisis in Swaziland let me know!
Ways To Help!