12 years ago today, I boarded a plane to Tanzania for the first time. I had no idea why, other than I had heard a voice of great love and compassion, a voice not of this world, ask me to go to a village called Uchira, in the foothills of Mt Kilimanjaro.
I had never left Europe at that point in my life and knew nothing about Tanzania.
Without planning, without a strategy, without an education on the topic and with a lot of prayer and fasting, that voice continued to guide the direction we would take.
12 years later, we have become a family of nearly 300 children, most of which special needs. Living in villages we built with the love and help of humanity's heart and the constant presence of God's love.
We have helped thousands of children into education and out of child labour of many kinds. We have successfully supported 100s of street involved children with a full-time family and reintegration with society. We have rescued hundreds of stray dogs and continue to do so with it. We now also have a full board drug rehabilitation centre, which, as I type, has 52 full-time residents fighting to be free of their addictions.
In short, a great many beautiful and healing elements of our family and society have manifested from following the voice of that loving God that brought me here all those years ago.
I'm so grateful God has put us here, in a space where mother, father creators love, can shine and comfort so powerfully and vibrantly.
If that voice that arises beyond me, "ness and emotion," can take the one typing this to here, I can only hope others realise it can take them to where they are needed too.
The catch is that God doesn't need our opinions, our ideas , or our strategy or planning. God needs absolute surrender to the will of the sacred. There, in the experience of the one typing here, our intelligence can be animated in ways we could have never imagined.
There, through the love of humanity, great beauty can, does, and will continue to arise unapologetically among mankind's story.
John St Julien Baba Wanyama
12 years ago today, I boarded a plane to Tanzania for the first time. I had no idea why, other than I had heard a voice of great love and compassion, a voice not of this world, ask me to go to a village called Uchira, in the foothills of Mt Kilimanjaro.
I had never left Europe at that point in my life and knew nothing about Tanzania.
Without planning, without a strategy, without an education on the topic and with a lot of prayer and fasting, that voice continued to guide the direction we would take.
12 years later, we have become a family of nearly 300 children, most of which special needs. Living in villages we built with the love and help of humanity's heart and the constant presence of God's love.
We have helped thousands of children into education and out of child labour of many kinds. We have successfully supported 100s of street involved children with a full-time family and reintegration with society. We have rescued hundreds of stray dogs and continue to do so with it.
We now also have a full board drug rehabilitation centre, which, as I type, has 52 full-time residents fighting to be free of their addictions.
In short, a great many beautiful and healing elements of our family and society have manifested from following the voice of that loving God that brought me here all those years ago.
I'm so grateful God has put us here, in a space where mother, father creators love, can shine and comfort so powerfully and vibrantly.
If that voice that arises beyond me, "ness and emotion," can take the one typing this to here, I can only hope others realise it can take them to where they are needed too.
The catch is that God doesn't need our opinions, our ideas , or our strategy or planning. God needs absolute surrender to the will of the sacred. There, in the experience of the one typing here, our intelligence can be animated in ways we could have never imagined.
There, through the love of humanity, great beauty can, does, and will continue to arise unapologetically among mankind's story.
In love and gratitude, everyone 🤍
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