Category: GLO
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You did it and they’ve got it now!
Do give yourself 57 secs of joy by watching this! This is just the briefest of messages feeding back on your beautiful response to our Christmas appeal to provide health cards to several thousand desperately needy folks. £2.50/$3 was what it cost to provide them and their immediate families three years of access to medical…
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The Satisfying Death of CIP… or the RIP of CIP!
Last Friday in Bujumbura, CIP was shut down, wound up, put to bed. Let me explain why that is probably GLO’s greatest satisfaction to date in our involvement in Burundi: In April 2015, a political (and therefore national) crisis came to a head as the sitting President announced he would indeed stand for a third…
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Building Now to the Glory of God!
I’m seriously excited, because this last week has been almost 12 years in the making. Check out this 1-minute clip with photos… But honestly, there were times when I doubted we would we ever get to this point. Let me explain: We helped Scripture Union launch the King’s Conference Centre in 2009 (See this video). It’s a sustainable success story and…
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To Your (and Their) Good Health This Christmas!
Widow Nadine’s 6-year-old daughter died because she didn’t have £2.50 ($3). £2.50 for a life. That is so wrong! I tell her tragic story in this short 2-minute film. Basically, for £2.50 ($3), Burundians can get a health card valid for three years for the whole family, which will allow them to get treatment at a government…
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Tears of Joy in Burundi
I’ve watched this three times now, and cried the first two. It’s just so beautiful! Honestly, please watch it, you won’t regret it! It goes down as one of the top ten meetings of my life… So here is a huge thank you to those of you who responded to last week’s email. Actually, the point of the email…
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Only By Grace in Burundi
Greetings! I’ve spent the last half-hour trying not to cry… …I’m in a meeting with folks I journeyed with for twenty years, who are sharing reminiscences of (mostly) highs and (some) lows that we experienced together. And currently they’re battling through some really tough times. My two biggest prayers for Burundi this year – once…
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Quick Gorgeous Smiley THANK YOU!
Through the incredible generosity of so many of you, we were able to supply 615 GLO-related families with a chunky gift to help them with buying school uniforms and stationery, and getting their kids back to school. Just wonderful! So on behalf of all the parents and children, THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH! GLO’s…
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Dropping out of School (or not)…
Leo walked 12 miles each way to and from school every day, so desperate was he to learn. That blows my mind. In the West, we’re not usually as grateful for the gift of education (although lockdown frustrations have maybe changed that a little). Recognising Leo’s commitment, we bought him a bicycle to save both time…
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Rocking Revival Prayer
Have you ever wept in prayer before? I can count on one hand the number of times I have. I guess I/we could fake it, but that’d be worse than not praying at all, I suspect. PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO WATCH THIS… For those of us who heard it as he prayed, we were…
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Quintuple-Whammy Good News in Burundi…
Enough of the endless stream of bad news in our Covid-19-affected world, let’s read some heart-warming encouragements! The below is a selection of transformational stories from J-Life in the community of Ciya, an area decimated over the years of war: Remember Arcade from my last newsletter, who looks like a 10-year-old but is in fact…
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How old is this child?
The answer is he is not a child, he is a 19-year-old young adult called Arcade. It’s difficult to believe… but when you hardly ever get any food to eat, physical development is stunted. More of his story is below… …before that, I want to praise the Lord for peaceful elections. Seriously. Last time in…
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Doing a Moses for Burundi and Beyond…
How long do you think you could hold your arms out wide for? That’s what I tried to do yesterday for the first time. Why not give it a go?! I managed so much longer than I thought possible, imagining that every extra cramping second signified more lives saved, which actually was the case with…
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Reminiscing About a Previous Lockdown…
I’ve been reflecting on the events of 2015 in Burundi as we’ve re-entered a very different type of lockdown with COVID-19. In 2015, it was election violence which led to our spending time hunkered down at home, rather than today’s threat of an invisible virus. We were not told to stay at home, but common…
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Anti-COVID Good News Story from Burundi!
Amidst so much legitimate doom and gloom, GLO wants to share stories of hope, joy and life to encourage you. I hesitate to share this particular story because you could think I’m self-promoting, but where Ida mentions me, substitute ‘GLO’. It illustrates exactly what we’re about. Not just the big nationwide-influencing stuff, but also helping…
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Heroic Faith in Burundi…
His brother rang to tell him their parents had been murdered and dumped down the sewer. He was about to run the most important race of his life… Watch this beautiful short (4-minute) film to hear more of Charles’ story. It’s good to have stories of triumphant hope during these difficult days… Deep peace to…