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Isaiah 1:17
“Learn to do good.
Seek Justice.
Help the oppressed.
Defend the cause of Orphans.
Fight for the rights of widows.”

We feel called to advocate for the poor and the orphans. Our role will shfit and change. This summer we will focus on networking, communicating, fact finding and implementing everything that has to do with orphans, and fostering them in the children’s home we are building. We will research the possibilities for adoption and attempt to make contact with individuals who have greater wisdom than us in this area.
We are praying for women and men in the villages who are already aware of the needs of the orphans and vulnerable. A couple who can be a house-mother and father in the first children’s home. Someone who already can identify the needyest children and orphans in their community.
We are praying about where the children should come from – the immediate villages surrounding the property, or ones father out. People in these villages are for the most part all related. We are trying to discern if taking the children from these viallges into the children’s home will be realistic. My feeling is that God will bring children from many places, near and far, who need to be cared for, loved, and who He wants raised up to be warriors for His kingdom.
We know there will be road blocks and pot holes along the way. we will make mistakes, but this is Gods dream, and He loves the broken, weak things of this world. He uses them to shame the rich, and the wise.
Being with the children and young teens in the village is such a pleasure. Some speak little English, some speak more. They are all so thirsty for love and attention. These kids never got read to. It is just a shame. If they go to school (which isn’t most of thme) they know more. But opening up a picture book with them, even if they are 14 or 30, they are just enthralled. Stories are such a huge part of their culture. I think of how kids are kids, no matter where they are from, or who is raising them, they love books! They love to be taught, to have their minds opened up to things that they have not heard before.
People in these villages are thirsty. It is a thirst that I pray will not easily be quenched. Sometimes it seems they (especially the adults) so easily sink back into doing what they have always done, and what their parents have done and their grandparents before them. They just sit and don’t strive to make anything better for themselves. They accept that this is their fate, and nothing they can do can change it. But this is a LIE! And we see their minds begin to be challenged and stretched, but we pray it doesn’t stop there, we pray for real, lasting change in every area of their lives.