On this festive season, the Orwa family through Africa
Harvest of Hope and Rancho del Rey Church renew their vow in the field to make
Jesus known throughout the world - preaching His peace, His love and His mercy,
giving hope to those that have lost it, making a commitment to teach true
Biblical doctrines.
Just like any other country, Tanzania faces a lot of
problems which are religion related. This is because a lot of people who are
born into a “Christian family” assume Christianity from birth hence they make
no attempt to live right with God as their faith is “family inherited.” As
Africa Harvest of Hope/ Rancho Del Rey, we give a different approach towards this
issue as we work diligently to raise funds to build an orphanage where we plan
to teach children Christianity as a way of life in an attempt to make a
difference.
Over the past month and as we continue, we go back to the Bible,
the first letter of John, discussing the authenticity of our faith, true
fellowship and practical approach to Christianity. Basic Christianity as we
find is simple. The problem is that we
humans complicate it. For example, the
two Commandments by our Lord Jesus: love your neighbor as you love yourselves
and love the lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind. This
past week, we raised questions such us who are our neighbors? The person living
close to us? The people we meet on the road? And etc.
Considering the two commandments, as we tackle the first commandment
we find that it is becoming increasingly more common for neighbors not to know
each other or even say hello to each other. Therefore how can you love people
you don’t know? How can you fellowship with people to whom you don’t even say
hello? As Christians it is our shot to be
the first to give love, extend our hands to one another and reach out to people
in our surroundings and build up fellowship.
This is the first step to loving our neighbors as we love ourselves. It
is that simple.
Therefore, we Africa Harvest of Hope want to challenge you
this festive season - invite a neighbor for a cup of tea or coffee. You don’t have to read a scripture for them. Just introduce yourselves and start one long
chain of love!
1 John 4:8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because
God is love.
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