We had the privilege to celebrate this day of love in the presence of the care-givers and patients of Impilo hospice.

Valentines day had a different flavor this year – the flavor of cookies, tea, coffee, fun and lots of laughter.

A few people in our Missional Expressions team took cookies to the hospice and after a short message by the local pastor on love and that we bring love to people through our actions,  the celebrations continued in the form of spontaneous dancing, same even in wheelchairs, and the singing of joyful songs.

It is so humbling to experience that a box of cookies and love can create so much happiness in the lives of these care-givers and especially the patients.

1 Corinthians 13 (NIV)

 1 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

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Sonja van der Walt| project coordinator |expo administrator 

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