Africa
Click Here for Ron & Bernadette's 2005 report from their trip to Africa.
Africa is a continent made up of 53 independent nations with a population of 831 million. Africa is facing a crisis because of AIDS created orphans. In 1995 there were 4.5 million AIDS orphans in Sub-Sahara Africa. By 2001 the figure stood at 13.4 million AIDS orphans. It is estimated that by 2005 there will be 20 million AIDS orphans and in 2010 the number will pass 25 million AIDS orphans. Most African nations are poor and underdeveloped and have few resources to deal with such a problem. Add to that the corruption in many African governments and you have a recipe for disaster.
Masaai warrior. They do not like to have their picture taken but Ron traded him the pen he has in his hand for the photo.
By 2000, an estimated 36 million people throughout the world had HIV or AIDS. The highest rates of infection were in central and southern Africa, where public health and education programs lacked resources to combat the epidemic.
Crusade in Morogoro, Tanzania.
About two-thirds of all Africans live in rural areas, where they make a living growing crops or raising livestock. In many parts of rural Africa, the people live much as their ancestors did hundreds of years ago. Agriculture is the leading economic activity in Africa, but most farmers use outdated tools and methods to farm thin, poor soil. As the soil can no longer produce enough food to feed the population they are migrating to the cities. The slum areas of the cities are larger and worse than they have ever been.
Ron with some of the children from Arusha, Tanzania.
It is our desire to do what we can to help the AIDS orphans of Africa. We know that we cannot help all of them but we will do what we can for the ones God brings to us. These innocent children are not responsible for the poverty, sickness and hunger they have been born into. So many children in Africa will be sleeping tonight in ditches, in allies, in falling down buildings. These children have not run away. They have no parents because of disobedience to God's Word. Tomorrow they will go to the streets again to beg for enough to buy a little something to eat. These children are targets for child molesters, pimps and criminals. Every one of these children is precious in God's eyes.
Some of the salvation's from the Kenya 2002 crusade
Woman healed from pain in lungs. She had suffered for 10 years and God healed her.
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Click Here for Ron & Bernadette's 2005 report from their trip to Africa.
