Comments on: Heading Home with a Heavy Heart

By: Bridgette Lott

Bridgette Lott — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:38:57 +0000

This breaks my heart. A world we could probably not even begin to imagine. How can we help?

By: Mark Cooper

Mark Cooper — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 14:10:10 +0000

Denise, you captured a story that shall move mountains. I continue to have my heart awakened to the needs of the orphans and widows. Your story simply adds more desire and expectation. It is easy to see why such a trip is so soul-searching when you feel the people from the slum search your soul. Their eyes are filled with intensity, pain, suffering, and yes, a sense of hope. I truly believe we are more like than we are different in thought and feeling. Yet, there is such a contrast in our circumstance. I will do everything possible to move that mountain with you. Thanks Denise and David…

By: Dawn D'Angelo

Dawn D'Angelo — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 12:42:07 +0000

another post making me cry-its so hard to explain what you see and i really dont think people will ever truely get it until they go and experience it-Im so excited that MJ is embarking on this adventure that is so near and dear to my heart I would love to help out in anyway -my husband is in the medical field and has been searching for some way to give back to the people of Africa-

By: Ashley Johnson

Ashley Johnson — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:46:39 +0000

One more – I’ve so enjoyed following the trip on Instagram and seeing the beauty in the faces, the simplicity, and the land. But thanks for this post bc it goes so far beyond the pictures. These people are in pain. Their country has just seen startling things no one should go through. Modern day holocaust. It’s amazing in our day with technology and connectedness how these people are ignored. I guess it’s too painful to acknowledge. But in what a movie grosses in opening weekend, what we spend each year on our pets, we could absolutely save and transform so many lives.

By: Ashley johnson

Ashley johnson — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:42:24 +0000

And it’s mind-blowing the things we get caught up in here with the human trafficking, slavery, extreme poverty, and starvation happening rampantly across the globe. If you don’t have the opportunity to make a mission trip, read Ashley Judd’s memoir. It will haunt you the things she describes she has seen.

By: Ashley Johnson

Ashley Johnson — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:39:01 +0000

A place to start to help these orphans and kids in Africa is http://www.compassion.com and sponsor a child. We sponsor 4 children now and it has been awesome for us. It’s such a small act but is making a difference for these kids lives and for us. We can’t fix everything but everyone can do something. Compassion international is a wonderful well-run organization. If people are fans of matilda Jane they probably have an extra $35 a month to change the life of a child. It’s barely a meal out to us. The price of a pair of leggings. It changes a child’s LIFE!

By: Marcy Schneider Hoffman

Marcy Schneider Hoffman — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:11:14 +0000

I’m sitting here with an ache in my heart as I read your blog post. Heart wrenching! The magnitude of it all can be overwhelming, yet it is the glimmer in their eyes, the hope that you see in them that presses us forward. You inspire me on many levels, but this moves me to tears. Moves me to want to make a change, to change with world. We can, you know……change the world.

By: tracy D

tracy D — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:54:00 +0000

Thank you for sharing your experiences.

By: Rebecca Lewandowski

Rebecca Lewandowski — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:02:12 +0000

This brought back so many emotions for me of my time spent in Zambia in 2001. I have a picture that I just found the other day, of a grandmother on the side of the road of one of the towns we visited and she was holding her newborn grandson. She kept trying to give us this sweet baby, asking us, pleading with us to take him back to America with us. It literally broke my heart…..this exchange that took only but a minute, will forever be etched in my heart. Your hearts will be heavy, but know you did some wonderful things during your time there! How many children you made smile, laugh!

By: Hope Boyce

Hope Boyce — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:57:43 +0000

… Eyes that make your soul ache … No words, but my heart aches!