Easter e-card 2007

* As I was thinking about Easter – the pain and suffering of the events of Holy week as Jesus was condemned to death – and then the new life we celebrate in the resurrection of Jesus – I reflected on what that new life really means... and so I thought of Alex in the photo above.

I met Alex last week – he lives in a rural part of north western Zambia and is HIV+. He has known great suffering. Having discovered he was HIV+ 8 years ago... he was condemned to death... but then four years ago he was able to start taking Anti-Retroviral drugs that would transform his life...

Alex knows what new life is... He lives and breathes it every new day.

This Easter may you know the joy of new life.

Matt & Polly


Photo: Alex is happy for us to identify him as HIV+ and is pictured here holding his Anti-Retroviral drugs. He is married with one daughter and lives in a rural community where health facilities are still very limited - he is the chairperson for the constituency committee for action on HIV created at a Jubilee Centre led workshop last week. The words are those of Jesus from John 10:10.