I have accepted God's call to Malawi Africa to serve as a nurse, teach health classes and build a children's clinic. I really need your help. Will you join with me and be global partner?
I was facilitating a training on healing and deliverance in August for a Women's Group and in one of the sessions I let people know that there is nothing that they could have ever done that was so terrible that would prevent God from loving them. So, I asked them to get quiet, close their eyes for a couple of minutes and invite God into the room of their heart. Of course as the facilitator I do the exercise always when I this workshop and I am always in the room as a little girl about 3-4 years old and I am standing there in the room with a hole in my chest in the shape of a heart and it's red. Well, this time God comes into the room that is brilliant white, and even He is brilliant white and I see him from the neck down. Once in the room He takes His right hand reaches inside of Himself and pulls out this great big heart. I am standing their in awe looking up at this great big heart, All of a sudden in an instant! He took the great big heart and put it inside the heart shaped hole opening in my chest. My whole physical body shifted and I opened my eyes quickly to get back to the class. About 2 weeks or so later the session I was scheduled to do was postponed and workshop was held instead by a visiting minister. I was invited and when he started talking, his talk was on how God was looking for intercessors. Well suddenly I felt uncomfortable. I said, "I'm not an intercessor, I pray for people, but I am not an intercessor" Immediately the Holy Spirit said, No! You have always been an intercessor since you were a little girl. I wept and wailed through the entire training session and never heard a word the man taught. At the end a pastor took me by the hands and led me up front to the speaker and was sharing how I wept through the whole workshop. I was still standing there weeping. The speaker looked at me and said " What do you do?!" I recall pausing long enough to say that I was a nurse. He looked at me and abruptly said, " Well, my school needs a nurse"! I just kept on weeping. I was totally undone. I did not even pay attention to what he had said. Another couple of weeks went by it's now September 21-23, 2007 I went to a women's retreat in NC, a last minute decision. It was there on September 22, 2007 while I was laid out on the floor on my face in worship that the Holy Spirit said to me, "Do you remember when I gave you my great big heart?" Of course I remembered. Then He said, "You will need my great big heart to go to the place where I am sending you, to minister to the people that I am sending you to". Then He said I was to go to Malawi. Malawi turns out to be the place where the high school is of the minister I met at the Emanuel Baptist Church, West Ashley, SC that said "My school needs a nurse! " Well, I was already on the floor weeping and wailing, so I wept and wailed some more! and some more! One of the facilitators for the women's retreat was the sister of the gentleman that did the workshop on intercession who said his school needed a nurse. I contacted Michael Howard's ministry to let them know that the Holy Spirit called me to come to the school and of course their reply was they already knew!
I will be the school nurse of 1000 high school students, teach health classes and build a children's clinic. The median age in Malwai is 16.5 years and most don't live to be 40 years old. There are many orphans and the babies die of Malaria and AIDs. I will do this mission assignment for 2 years. So in 2010 I will go wherever He says after that. So I have wept and wailed since August 2007 and my family is supportive of my trip. I will come home December 2008 because their school year is January to December and they get out in December for one month and back to school.
God just wanted to know if I would surrender totally and give up everything for Him and I said yes! I am excited and ask for your continued prayers. I your help to raise $14,000+ before I leave March 10, 2008 and I need to also raise $40,000 to build a 12 bed children's clinic.
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I discovered on Friday, January 25, 2008 that the invitation for Michael Howard to come to SC was from Asst. Pastor George Kugblenu of Emanuel Baptist Church, James Island SC who had read his book on intercession, TALES of an AFRICAN INTERCESSOR - A new look at intercession which will inspire & change your life as well as encourage you to begin to intercede. Inspiring accounts of how intercession changed lives, nations and world events.
Well it was all that and more when I read the book. I became totally undone again when I read how Michael Howard himself describes how he became undone!
Donations can be sent to:
Rosetta Swinton
PO Box 669
Mt. Pleasant SC 29465
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(843) 856-5060 USA
+265 5 215 452 ( International phone number)
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Malawi Mailing Address:
Rosetta Swinton
Rose Of Sharon Project
PO Box 3185
Blantyre, Malawi
News Article:
www.charleston.net/news/2008/jan/13/nurse_answering_gods_call_africa27366/