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From Terror to Joy   March 27, 2025

Deuteronomy10:17a. "For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes."

More from Ben Tasevski:  To this day, the story I share most of my time in Malawi was when I took a group of Canadian university students on a tour of the villages surrounding Liwonde in Southern Malawi.   The experience involved pairing each young person with a field staff member working in the villages.  This was a trip “back in time” to when the most advanced forms of technology were the metal of a hoe, the mechanics of a bike and battery-operated radios.  There was no electricity.  No one had a mobile phone.  The houses were mud floors and thatched roofs. I always felt I was travelling a century back in time when I went to visit the villages.

I clearly remember dropping off one of the
last students.  I remember the sudden terror on her face as the doors of the vehicle I was driving closed.  The sudden realization that she would be all “alone”, by herself in the ‘middle of nowhere’.  All the familiarity of her life gone and only a field staff member as an anchor.  

It was a transformational experience.  When I came back for this same young woman I left
in terror only about an hour early, I found her smiling and happy.  She had seemingly become a part of the community.  She was singing with the women and participating in the community gathering.

Where it all started

September 12, 2024

The Letters of Patent declaring Emmanuel Relief and Rehabilitation International to be a recognized charitable organization is dated September 11, 1975.  September 12, 2024 begins our 50th year, our Jubilee year!  In the Bible, every 50th year was a reset year, a year of rest. The Jubilee was a year of acknowledging Sovereign God, His grace, His provision, His heart for His people.  

With Samuel of old, on the 12th of September 2024, join us in raising our Ebenezer; for truly, ‘hitherto has the LORD helped us.” 

 I Samuel 7:12:  “Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far has the LORD helped us.”