I Need Africa More Than Africa Needs Me

(I, Cassie, wrote this blog last year for the Mocha Club's campaign "I Need Africa More Than Africa Needs Me)

There is a cause that I have decided to get behind, its called Mocha Club. You give seven dollars a month to an organization that supports Africa. Seven dollars can send two kids through a semester of school. Seven dollars can give seven Africans clean water for a year. What do we do with the seven dollars? We spend it on two coffees and it goes no further. Mocha Club has asked its members to write a blog to raise awareness. You dont have to have thousands of dollars to make a difference.

I need Africa more than Africa needs me. How you ask? In my previous blogs I’ve told you about the concept that God hasn’t let me stop thinking about. I hold a unique expression of God that no one else has. If I’m going to truly live with that conviction God whispered something into my heart- you must then search out the unique expressions I have placed in others. Every single person holds an expression of God in them that we would other wise miss out on. Now think of that in the relation to the beautiful people of Africa. They hold expressions of God like no one else. When we let these people who are in such devastation slip out of our memories, a facet of God is being forgotten.
I know I need Africa, I need to learn from them. I need to see the pieces of God that He breathed into their lives. I need to believe that God is a provider who can take a person who needs a miracle and turn their lives into more then they ever could've imagined. I believe God can use us in amazing ways to reach out... I believe that I need the child in Africa who smiles amidst a 20 year war. I need the widow who continues to worship in the midst of her grief. I need the young man in Africa who walks barefoot to a well miles away from home to get one gallon of water for his sickly siblings. I think its time to consider if perhaps we need Africa more then Africa needs us.


So what do you think? Is it possible we need Africa more then it needs us? Tell me what you think-make your own blog about it. Myself and others teamed with Mocha Club are trying to change the pity over Africa to genuine compassion in action with partnership- come check out my blog and Mochaclub.org on Decmember 1st and we can learn together how to help that change happen. Tell me, do we need Africa?

Our Passion!

Ever since we went to Africa in 2007, our hearts have been there in the beautiful continent on Africa. About a year after coming home, and falling into our old routine, we watched a documentary called ‘The Invisible Children’ It showcased the need in Uganda that surrounds the issue of the child soldiers, child prostitutes and night commuters in Uganda. As we watched this movie, we couldn't control our weeping. Four year olds carrying guns, ten year old girls pregnant, sons forced to murder their parents or die. Our hearts broke as they began to beat on rythm with the Creator who saw his hurting children in Uganda. From that point on we had a knowing in our souls that we would end up in the most amazing country of Uganda someday… This burden was confirmed in fall of 2009 at a conference that pleaded with young women of today to live life on purpose and to make a difference. With tears streaming down our cheeks we knew that we had to take aciton. Its been said that a broken heart goes hand in hand with passion. So we are taking the broke pieces of our hearts, along with God's, and using the passion there to reach and love on the people of Uganda