Sunday, February 24, 2008

The Call To Global Mission

SC Nurse Becomes Full-time Missionary - Rosetta Swinton On A Global Mission To Save Families…. Africa

Charleston, SC -- February 1, 2008 -- Rosetta has accepted God's call to Malawi Africa to serve as a nurse, teach health classes and build a children's clinic. Will you join with her and be global partner?

Join Rosetta a native of Mount Pleasant, SC. presently employed full-time at Medical University of South Carolina. She has over 30 years of experience from critical care nursing and & ER, clinic, research and disease prevention and community outreach. She has served as the 7th Episcopal District Director for Health for the AME Churches (634 churches, with over 276,000 members) in SC for the past 7 ½ years and have worked with a number organizations as well as faith groups to provide health ministry training and health workshops around prevention statewide and nationally.

She has answered a call to be a full-time missionary in Southeast Africa in the country of Malawi. She sees this as an incredible mission’s opportunity that God has presented to her.

Ms. Swinton shared that the first year of this mission trip will be to volunteer as a school nurse for 1,000 students at Kalibu Academy, Blantyre, Malawi. She will work with several faith-based organizations and villages in Malawi & Mozambique to help them implement health ministries. She will teach health classes for students, as well as to the people of Malawi of how to practice good habits, which will include prevention related to HIV/AIDs and more. The planning process for the clinic will also be initiated in this first year to begin seed money effort for construction as soon as possible. The infant death rate is 94.4 deaths per 1000 births. The median life expectancy 16.5 years and most don't live to be 40 years old. A key request to her from Malawi is, “help us to build a clinic for the children” and “Please come ASAP”. She leaves for Malawi March 2008.

The second year of the trip will include the above and the completion of the Rose Of Sharon Project, which is a special project of building a health clinic through the Caring Community Development Coalition, Inc, a faith-based non-profit. The initial focus of the clinic is for the children and will be expanded to the whole family. This will allow more people to have access to a health care facility located within their village and community. On behalf of the Rose of Sharon Project for the people of Malawi, we thank you! Your gift will be both life giving and lifesaving to the people. Give the best gift that you can as soon as possible. No gift is too small. To receive updates visit the website. To become a global partner and to donate to the mission effort please visit the following websites at: http://caringcdc.com and http://rosettaswinton.weebly.com

For information: http://rosettaswinton.weebly.com
Contact: rswinton777@yahoo.com
Phone: 843-367-0858 or Phone: 843 – 856-1274

Post & Courier 1/13/08:
www.charleston.net/news/2008/jan/13/nurse_answering_gods_call_africa27366/


Join Me On A Global Mission To Save Families

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I really need your help. Will you join with me and be global partner?
You are the Global Difference!! You are the Global Difference!!

My Testimony...
I was facilitating training on healing and deliverance in August for Women Of Action International, Inc and in one of the sessions I let people know that there is nothing that they could have ever done that was so terrible that would prevent God from loving them. So, I asked them to get quiet, close their eyes for a couple of minutes and invite God into the room of their heart. Of course as the facilitator I do the exercise always when I this workshop and I am always in the room as a little girl about 3-4 years old and I am standing there in the room with a hole in my chest in the shape of a heart and it's red. Well, this time God comes into the room that is brilliant white, and even He is brilliant white and I see him from the neck down. Once in the room He takes His right hand reaches inside of Himself and pulls out this great big heart. I am standing their in awe looking up at this great big heart, All of a sudden in an instant! He took the great big heart and put it inside the heart shaped hole opening in my chest. My whole physical body shifted and I opened my eyes quickly to get back to the class. About 2 weeks or so later the session I was scheduled to do was postponed and workshop was held instead by a visiting minister. I was invited and when he started talking, his talk was on how God was looking for intercessors. Well suddenly I felt uncomfortable. I said, "I'm not an intercessor, I pray for people, but I am not an intercessor" Immediately the Holy Spirit said, No! You have always been an intercessor since you were a little girl. I wept and wailed through the entire training session and never heard a word the man taught. At the end a pastor took me by the hands and led me up front to the speaker and was sharing how I wept through the whole workshop. I was still standing there weeping. The speaker looked at me and said " What do you do?!" I recall pausing long enough to say that I was a nurse. He looked at me and abruptly said, “Well, my school needs a nurse"! I just kept on weeping. I was totally undone. I did not even pay attention to what he had said. Another couple of weeks went by it's now September 21-23, 2007 I went to a women's retreat in NC, a last minute decision. It was there on September 22, 2007 while I was laid out on the floor on my face in worship that the Holy Spirit said to me, "Do you remember when I gave you my great big heart?" Of course I remembered. Then He said, "You will need my great big heart to go to the place where I am sending you, to minister to the people that I am sending you to". Then He said I was to go to Malawi. Malawi turns out to be the place where the high school is of the minister I met at the Emanuel Baptist Church, West Ashley, SC that said "My school needs a nurse! " Well, I was already on the floor weeping and wailing, so I wept and wailed some more! and some more! One of the facilitators for the women's retreat was the sister of the gentleman that did the workshop on intercession who said his school needed a nurse. I contacted Michael Howard's ministry to let them know that the Holy Spirit called me to come to the school and of course their reply was they already knew!

I will be the school nurse of 1000 high school students, teach health classes and build a children's clinic. The median age in Malawi is 16.5 years and most don't live to be 40 years old. There are many orphans and the babies die of Malaria and AIDS. I will do this mission assignment for 2 years. So in 2010 I will go wherever He says after that. So I have wept and wailed since August 2007 and my family is supportive of my trip. I will come home December 2008 because their school year is January to December and they get out in December for one month and back to school.

God just wanted to know if I would surrender totally and give up everything for Him and I said yes! I am excited and ask for your continued prayers.
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Donations can be sent to:
Rosetta Swinton
1175 Mathis Ferry Rd M2
Mt. Pleasant SC 29464
rswinton777@yahoo.com
http://rosettaswinton.weebly.com
(843) 367-0858

Thank you for being a global partner!

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

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