A special Message from Dave and Claudia Chafe!
From the time we left home till the time we returned it was an eye opener. We left temperatures of 0 to -4 degrees celcius and went to 31 degrees. We also left a land of plenty and visited towns that had next to nothing. There was no running water, very little food, and up in the mountains where we went, people lived in metal shacks.
But in the midst of all that, it was so loving to visit the feeding centers and the schools that the missionaries are running and have the children run up to us and wrap their arms around us, as if we knew them for a long time.
Also, to see their smiling faces as if they had the world when they really have so little. Even though we see pictures on TV of places like this, we didn’t get the true impact until we saw it for ourselves. At times it was heartbreaking, and at the end of the day we needed time to process all that we had seen and experienced. Through the heartbreaking times and the happy times we wouldn’t change a thing, because this was the only way to see how these people actually live every day.
Claudia & Dave
