Advent Word 2016: Hope

Converted anxiety is hope. Anxiety is dreadful expectation; hope is expectant desire. They are like cousins to each other. Pray for the conversion of your fretful anxiety into promising hope. If you are anxious just now, you are almost already hopeful.

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PHOTO – KENYA

When we visited the farm of Jane Manjiku in Kambiti village in Murang’a County, Kenya, she welcomed us warmly with the words “feel at home because we are together.”

Jane received training in conservation agriculture through World Renew’s partner Anglican Development Services–Mount Kenya. On her half-acre farm, Jane uses many new techniques, including crop rotation, minimum tillage, and mulching her crops to preserve moisture. The thriving green maize plants taller than Jane’s head are proof of how effective that has been. Her neighbours said she must have been breaking her back to carry enough water to produce a crop so green and healthy, but when she told them she was not, they could hardly believe it. “I have gone far,” Jane notes, and she is eager to spread the word and help others do the same. Now that her neighbours see the results, they want to know more, and Jane is eager to tell them. The original group of 160 farmers who received the training through have gone on to train others, and now a total of 640 farmers have learned how conservation agriculture practices can improve their nutrition, increase yields, and enhance food security in the region.

~ by Rebecca Warren, board member, World Renew Canada (click here for the entirety of her blog post)

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