Always Enough: God's Miraculous Provision among the Poorest Children on Earth by Baker Rolland & Baker Heidi

Author:Baker, Rolland & Baker, Heidi [Baker, Rolland]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780800793616
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2003-08-31T22:00:00+00:00

The flooding continues

In March of 2000, President Chissano’s secretary-general talked with us about his country’s devastation. He had spent his life, he said, trying to help his country develop, once through communism, then through Mozambique’s new democratic government and now through faith in Jesus as well. He loved our center and came there for a spiritual “bath.” He wanted to be on our Mozambican board of directors. But he was in an emotional state. “How could God do this to our country?” he asked. “We’ve been knocked back fifty years!” More damage was done to Mozambique in three weeks of flooding than in 25 years of war.

We didn’t know exactly, but we did know that in Jesus we always have reason to be positive, overwhelmingly and victoriously so. We thought Mozambique was enough of a challenge the way it was, but now we were in a position to see Jesus do much more than we expected. We could show that our faith in Him does overcome the world even in the most desperate situations. The question was, Did we want to be a part of God’s work against extreme odds, or should we miss the glory and look away?

The flood was causing vastly more than homelessness. Corpses were floating in the floodwaters. Helicopters rescued ten thousand people from treetops and roofs along the Limpopo River, but ninety thousand more were stranded and in imminent danger of being swept away and drowned. Most could not swim, but the current was so powerful and deep that even strong swimmers could not last long. Each day those trapped in tiny areas grew weaker from hunger and exposure. Small children were affected quickly by malnutrition, so they were rescued first, leaving their parents behind.

Those rescued were deposited in isolated areas, still wet and miserable and without food or services of any kind. Children were hungry, sick and crying, with high fevers, and left without mothers and fathers. International aid was on the way but greatly delayed by red tape, and it was far less than what was required. In this huge country with so many orphans and children in distress, there were pitifully limited facilities for taking care of them. In the Lord we tried to fill a vacuum among the neediest of them all.

The flood kept rising, with more crests coming down the rivers from overflowing dams. Incredibly, another cyclone formed off Madagascar and headed toward Mozambique.

In Maputo we brought food and supplies daily to a cashew factory where we took responsibility for 3,000 refugees, and we also visited four or five other camps, one with 26,000 refugees. The UN World Food Program had food for that camp, but in many others there was no food at all unless we brought it. The large aid agencies simply could not get assistance down to street level fast enough to prevent widespread suffering.

Our fifty-acre center at Machava stayed mostly flooded. Fish were swimming in our church where we had such wonderful meetings in the Holy Spirit.

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