This video produced by World Relief echoes our heart at the Moju Project. Everyone should watch this 2 minute video!
At the Moju Project we are saving lives every day through the sales of our fair trade t-shirts and handcrafted Timbali bags!
For the One,
Team Moju
The season of Christmas is one that touches us all. This season is filled with parties, decorations, family and friends, cookies, and gifts galore! It is really the only time of year where people intentionally reach out to others.
I don’t know about you but I LOVE to say MERRY CHRISTMAS to anyone and everyone! The joy that fills my heart when I think about what Christmas means to me is at times overwhelming.
Christ is the reason for Christmas! We give gifts in celebration of the gift that Jesus gave to us! We sing carols and songs about Jesus! O’ Holy Night, Silent Night- these songs share the story of Christ’s birth; our Savior’s entrance into the world!
We once were lost, but now we our FOUND; how can we not celebrate our Saving Grace!?
Christmas makes me think about Mary and her unwavering faith and trust in God. I think about what Jesus’ birth meant to her; knowing in her heart that she was impregnated by the Holy Spirit and was the chosen vessel to bring Jesus to us.
“The blind will see, the deaf will hear and the dead will live again. The lame will leap, the dumb will speak, the praises of the lamb. Mary did you know that your baby boy is Lord of all creation? Mary did you know that your baby boy will one day rule the nations? Did you know that your baby boy is heaven’s perfect Lamb? This sleeping child you’re holding is the great I am.”
For as blessed as we are, Christmas also makes me think about those who don’t know the Lord; people who feel hopeless, abandoned, and lost. I think about the orphans around the world who do not have moms and dads or in some cases any family.
My heart aches for them. I pray that every person would encounter the LOVE of our Heavenly Father. I pray that they would find the HOPE that we have all found! I pray that you and I would seek out ways to be a blessing to people. I pray that we would reach out to those who are hurting and lift people up.
I pray that we would remember that Christmas is about Christ and that we would take time to reflect and give thanks to God for everything He has done for us!
At the Moju Project we pray that you would experience God in a real and tangible way this season. May your hearts be filled with uncontainable joy and may you remember how loved you are!
We can’t help but thank God for all of your support this past month! We have sold tons of t-shirts and rejoice over the lives you are saving!
We are so blessed by what God is doing!
We wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS!
For the One,
Team Moju
You voted and now the results are in!!!
One week from today these shirts will be in our hands and available for you to purchase! (We are posting the shirts on our website, so that you can pre-order! The shirts will be shipped out starting next Friday!)
Our top design was Spread Love! 
The runner up was our Feed Just 1 shirt. (please note that this shirt will be available in brown).
We have also decided to print our Moju X design on a very cool Slate blue color!
We have ordered a limited number of each design- so make sure you pre-order to guarantee your shirt! Once these are sold, we can not guarantee that we will be receiving more shirts prior to Christmas.
Thank you for partnering with us to save lives!!!
Here are the winning designs from our recent contest! CLICK HERE TO ORDER YOUR T-SHIRTS!
We are so excited be able to offer you these hand-crafted Timbali Bags!
These bags are made in Swaziland, Africa by the village “GoGos” (grandmothers). Each bag is hand-made and is one of a kind! No two bags are identical but each bag is made with equal amounts of love!
The bags come in a variety of colors and patterns. All of the bags are also reversible, so you can choose between a bolder pattern or a solid gray or cream alternative.
In Swaziland, the average life expectancy is around 28 years old. This is mainly due to the wide-spread AIDS pandemic in the country. As a results most children are double orphans (having lost both parents).
The GoGos will often take in as many orphan children into their small huts as they can. It is not unusual to visit a hut and find as many as 10 children living their.
These women carry the weight of their country on their backs.
When you purchase a Timbali bag, you are supporting the work and livelihood of these amazing women and the children they have taken in.
Your bag will include a tag with the name of the grandmother who hand-crafted it just for you!
TIMBALI BAGS ARE DOUBLE THE BLESSING!
NOT ONLY WILL YOUR PURCHASE SUPPORT THE GOGOS, IT WILL ALSO GO TOWARDS FEEDING AN ORPHAN FOR 1 MONTH!!!
Since all of the bags are unique, we have no way of allowing you to pick your bag. It is a grab-bag style! However, if you have a pattern or color that you like, please call us and we will do our absolute BEST to accommodate you!
We thank you in advance for partnering with us to save lives and support these beautiful women! Buy your bag here!
I want to talk to you today about what your little can do.
I think about the small boy with the little lunch – Jesus had 5,000 hungry people and no way to feed them. None of the adults knew what to do but there was a little boy with a very small lunch. He knew it wasn’t much, just enough for him, but he was willing to give it to Jesus.
We know the story, he gave his lunch that day and Jesus fed 5,000 people and not only that but they gathered many baskets of leftovers. God always does exceedingly, abundantly above all we can imagine.
Most people wouldn’t have even been willing to offer that small lunch, they would have thought there was no way it could make a difference, but nothing is small in Jesus, He multiplies everything and causes it to be more than enough.
What is small to you may feed thousands. I know that those who give to this ministry, even small gifts, it helps to feed, spiritually, thousands daily. Isn’t that amazing! God takes that gift, multiplies it and causes it feed thousands.
The Bible says when we are faithful over little, He will make us ruler over much. I want to point out two things here. When we are faithful over little, He doesn’t make us ruler over little, but ruler over much. Secondly, it is ONLY when we are faithful with little that we become ruler over anything.
Many people will say when the win the lottery they will give God $50,000 but I say, if you don’t give the $50 you have now, you won’t give the $50,000 when it is in your hands. If you don’t give the $5 you have now, you will never be found faithful over little and you will never be ruler over much.
Everyone reading this today has something they can give, it may not be money, but each one of you has a place to start being faithful in little today. Perhaps you bake well, you could bake someone in need a dessert or even a meal. It may be little to you but it will be great to them.
Perhaps you have an extra blanket or coat lying around, give it, it may mean nothing to you – but to the person you give it to, it will mean warmth over a long, winter season.
When we begin to give, even if it is little, we set ourselves up for a lifetime of miracles coming our way. Remember the window woman? She only had a little flour and oil, nothing to brag about – only enough to make one more meal for her and her son and then they would die. But the Prophet came along and ask her to make him a cake. She told him that she only had a little, he told her to give him that little. She obeyed the man of God and God provided for her through that entire famine.
However, it didn’t end there. Later in life, when her son died, she went to the same prophet and he prayed for him and he lived again. You see, she gave her little and it set her up for a lifetime of miracles.
It is my prayer for you that when you give, even if it is little, it sets you up for a lifetime of miracles. It is my prayer that as you give, even a little, that God will provide for you and your family during these times of famine in our land. He is the same God now as then. The principle remains the same – you give and God takes care of you, just as He did the widow woman back then. We simply can’t stop giving.
One more thing I want you to remember – it was a small thing that took down the giant of lack in the widows life that day, just as it was a small thing in the hand of David that took down the giant in his life – your small gift will take down every giant in your life.
This post is compliments of Kim Potter from A New Thing Ministries.
One of the members from our Moju team, Joy Smith, just returned home from Swaziland. Being face to face with her brothers and sisters in Africa was a powerful reminder of how crucial it is that we take Jesus’ mandate seriously- to care for the orphans and widows in their distress.
I know that we are not all called to “go” but we are all called and responsible for loving and caring for our brothers and sisters around the world.
Joy is a woman who has said “YES” to the call of God on her life! As a mother of 4, she is a passionate orphan advocate and lover of Jesus. We are blessed that she is part of our team!
Here is what she wrote:
“I just returned home from a “Vision” trip to Swaziland. The purpose of the trip was to “see” what was going on there. What I saw to some, would be devastating, I know, but I was not surprised. The empty mud huts did not surprise me. The children with no clothes or little clothing did not surprise me. I was not surprised by the lack of food or jobs. I have been to other countries in Africa so I was prepared, or so I thought…
I was very surprised at the amount of child headed households. I was surprised that the age expectancy in Swaziland is only 28.7 years old. I was surprised that the HIV/AIDS is the highest per capita @ 46% of any other country. I was surprised that one community leader stated his greatest need was not food or clothing or shelter or jobs but coffins!! Coffins are his greatest need! That was surprising. I was surprised that more “westerners” are not doing something. Really we have so many options. Options for grocery stores, jobs, schools, really everything!! We have options. Lots and lots of options, In every area of our lives. I was surprised in Swaziland at the lack of options.
Parents in Swaziland want the same for their children as I want for my children. Good education, food, clothing shelter and a good job for the future. My children have loads of options. That is not the case in Swaziland. Job opportunities are slim, education is not affordable for the average Swazi and food and clothing are scarce.
But I did find hope in Swaziland. I did see the difference we can make. I saw children being fed at “CarePoints”. A CarePoint is a safe place for children to come and have a meal, go to school and have a place to play, to actually be children. These Carepoints are run by the local community leaders and the “gogo’s” (grandmother in Siswati).
There was hope at these CarePoints. Hope there will be food; hope for an education and for a future.
You CAN make a difference in the life of children in Swaziland. I have seen it! You can offer them options for a better tomorrow. Buy a t-shirt and feed one of these children for a month.”
(The Moju Project partners with Children’s HopeChest and Feed My Starving Children to provide meals to orphans and widows in Africa. Joy was able to see first hand the difference we are making by visiting Carepoints, like the Carepoints we are involved with, where these children are receiving holistic care.)
Sometimes being the tangible hands and feet of Jesus can be as simple as paying a compliment, offering encouragement, or smiling at the kid at the copier. This short little post is meant to offer some easy, little ways to show love to your coworkers Enjoy!
out to lunch! Bosses need encouragement too Be on the lookout for other ways to serve! If you have fun ideas, please share them below!
~Written by Brother Lawrence (over 300 years ago)
There are three points to consider here:
First, to adore God in Spirit and in truth means to adore Him as we should. Because God is a Spirit, He must be adored in spirit. That is to say, we must worship Him with a humble, sincere love that comes from the depth and center of our soul. Only God can see this adoration, which we must repeat until it becomes part of our nature, as if God were one with our soul and our soul were one with God. Practice will demonstrate this.
Secondly, to adore God in truth is to recognize Him for what He is, and ourselves for what we are. Adoring God in truth means that our heart actually sees God as infinitely perfect and worthy of our praise. What man, regardless of how little sense he may have, would not exert all his strength to show his respect and love of this great God?
Thirdly, to adore God in truth is to admit that our nature is just the opposite of His. Yet, He is willing to make us like Him, if we desire it. Who would be so rash as to neglect, even for a moment, the respect, the love, the service, and the continual adoration that we owe Him?
Something to think about and meditate on today. Let’s give our Lord all the adoration that He so easily deserves!
Special thanks to Todd Vinson for making this available.
I have been thinking about the significance of the number one today.
Jesus tells the parable of leaving the 99 to go after the lost ONE:
(Matthew 18:12-14- “If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost? 13 And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that didn’t wander away! 14 In the same way, it is not my heavenly Father’s will that even one of these little ones should perish.?”)
We are called to be a body of ONE.
(Ephesians 4:4- “There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope when you were called—“)
(1 Corinthians 12:20- “As it is, there are many parts, but one body.”)
One man, Jesus, changed the world.
There are countless other scriptural examples where God points out the significance of one. In fact, when we really study the Bible, so many times God uses one person to make a huge difference; a life-changing impact! (Moses, Paul, and Queen Esther, to scratch the surface!)
Several years ago God stirred in us the value and significance of 1 life….
After returning from a mission trip to Africa, my eyes had been open to the gift of life. Every day mommy’s were losing their babies to starvation and disease. Every day little ones were being left orphaned by their parents from HIV/ Aids. Every day death was a sad reality that consumed the lives of those afflicted.
There are so many overwhelming statistics about poverty, hunger, orphans, Aids, etc. The needs appear to be so great, and often times I think we feel saddened and helpless.
I think a truth that we are all guilty of, is that although we know what is going on in the world, it is not personal to us.
In the book “A Whole in Our Gospel”- the author, , touches on this point and says “Imagine if one of these dying orphans showed up on your door while you were getting ready to leave for church. Wouldn’t you stop and do everything in your power to help that child? Of course you would!” That one life, that statistic that you read about, would suddenly become very personal.
This example is a great illustration of what I believe the Bible teaches us over and over again. The value of one life.
Today I want you to think about how you can impact one life for the Kingdom today. How can you show the love of Jesus to your neighbor? How can you reach out to the lost, the broken, the widow, an orphan?
How can we take this valuable principle and make it part of our daily faith walk; our inherent Christ-like DNA?
Focus on the ONE.
When we started the Moju Project, God really spoke to our hearts about the significance of impacting one life.
For the first time in human history the number of hungry people this year will exceed one billion. There are also 1 billion users today on the Internet.
Check out this video from the World Food Program:
For the One,
Team Moju
My buds over at the Moju Project are doing some awesome things with their organization; it is truly a very simple concept: Buy a shirt and it’ll feed an orphan for a month.
I dig it. In fact I’ve had more than one person ask me about the organization when I’ve worn the shirt because it is generally a very cool and unique idea.
They sent me a few shirts a little while back and want to spread the love even more by giving away some shirts here! 3 randomly chosen winners (via the comments) will be chosen.
All you have to do is answer this question:
What is one thing that God has either taught or shown you in 2009 that you will take forward with you into 2010?
Ready? Go!
Thanks so much Moju Project for all that you’re doing. You’re making a difference one shirt at a time.
If you would like to enter the contest, click here, to visit Human Error’s Site.
We would also live to thank John Saddington, @human3rror for hosting this contest and giving his readers the chance to make a difference in orphans’ lives! Thanks John!
