We Are The Harringtons

As I am sitting here at a restaurant I am looking back from this week, last week, last several months. Man. Time has flown by. Beginning of the year I was, and still am, leading the ASP and tutoring in Mbonisweni, February my parents came to visit and to work, May I went home, August our annual Day of Royalty. It has been a full, crazy fun year. I have been trying to process these last few months and how much change has come in a small amount of time. Positions and opportunities were open and every time I felt uneasy but willing, I felt short of experience, capacity, leadership but willing. There is this book I have been slowly reading that shared something that impacted my look at daily life. God doesn't want us to just do things thinking its good for the Kingdom, which it could be amazing work, but it is not what God is doing. He has his plans and he wants us to join him. Instead of doing just stand, and watch. Notice where God is revealing himself and that leaves an opportunity

Early this week I had read a short devotion. You know how sometimes you are going on through your day and something happens, you see someone, situations come together and you think man what a coincidence! This devotion was sharing that there is no coincidence for God. When you look up the definition of coincidence the first synonym is accident. Again I dont think God makes accidents. He has his purposes and reasons and its all perfect. We got home from our ASP in Mbonisweni on Tuesday and I felt quite defeated. I was trying to help Njabulo with his school homework and you could see in his eyes he was lost. I kept wondering how he has continued to move up in grades when its difficult for him to even solve 20+10. Unfortunately, this is just one child I'm speaking of. Talking with Candis, an awesome sister and staff member, afterwards and trying to speak out how the Tutoring program can walk this out we came to a conclusion. Teachers. Volunteer teachers from the local communities and

So in these past several weeks TTH, or more of Community Development Team, have been on break out in the communities because of school break. Besides putting together new schedules for the ASP and preparing, there has been some bits of down time. And in these 3 weeks I think God is teaching me a lot. Here is a little song I put together... I give you my heart and my soul to you, for you are my strength and my overview, so open my eyes to see more of you, Hosanna forever we worship you. God showed me roots that have been growing in my life that I have never really put any effort to dig up. But in these times of being very vulnerable with God it becomes just opening yourself to him and laying everything down before him. This song could basically summarize my time during this break. God is leading me to some big stuff. Things that bring self-worth and ability to overcome. Who I am! I just see this picture of this long math problem I'm trying to solve, and

If you can hold on for a few minutes as I dust off my blog... Firstly I apologize for not keeping a good track run on my blog. No excuses. For any new supporters out there or anyone curious who I am and what my life is in South Africa, welcome! My name is Jared Harrington, I am a young 22 years, born and raised in Zealand, Michigan. If you asked me after high school graduation what I wanted to do with my life I would have given you an answer of confusion and lack of confidence. I had no idea. But that's when God started His plan for me. To make a much shorter summary, after short trips to South Africa in recent years I am now staff with an organization called Ten Thousand Homes in White River, South Africa. It has actually been one year now! We strive to bring hope and homes to the orphaned and vulnerable children. We run many after school programs that bring safety and security for the kids while providing a full meal, tutoring and discipleship lessons. We have a brand new