We Are The Harringtons

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 ...

I just have come to realize while I'm sitting here eating my breakfast  that God has this all under control. Lately since our new ASP, after school program, has started I have been pretty stressed, confused, frustrated leading the tutoring program. At least the planning and structure part. It's been something all new for me and learning new things every day. And especially during this time I am learning... I AM NOT ALONE. I have this amazing group of people that understand what I'm going through and with much more experience than me. For a couple weeks I have been praying for strength to not be afraid to ask for help to use these people that God has placed me with. Last week I shared with Kacy my prayer and something she said couldn't be more forward. So stop praying and do it. Aaaaand she's right. I could pray every day for strength to ask for help. And God could do anything to make me ask but what would be the point if he stepped in all the time? In this sit...