There are so many stories I can tell you about my years in Uganda. The best ones are when the Lord used me to lead someone to the Lord. Nothing makes me happier than to see someone accept Christ to live in their hearts and to make Him the Lord of their life.
This is what the work I do is all about with the children. Watching them grow up and get educated, come to Jesus and really their whole lives changed, it is so exciting to see. Nothing can compare to this other than the day when I actually get to be with Jesus face to face.
We started a sponsorship for a three year old little boy named Trevor. He is so cute with such big eyes and such a sweet manor about him. He just comes up and wants to be hugged and feel loved. He lives with his Grandparents and his mother. His mother became pregnant and the father took off. She was very young and could not manage to care for him hardly at all. She has really tried, however, and I felt strong that this is a boy that we can make a difference through and in with the Spirit of our Lord. Please pray for him as he grows to grow with Jesus.
Trevor had severe malnutrition as you can see in the picture below. He has really suffered for someone so young. Often going with no food at all, just as his mother does. The Grandparents are old and do not work and have no income. The gardens are their main source of food and they are small gardens. This is often the case with the vulnerable children that we work with.
Trevor find things to play with but has not even one toy, as most of the kids in the village where I stay don't. He had heard of Jesus through the Messianic Jew Church or Congregation that is in the area. His mother found some work there helping out in their nursery school. I sometimes wonder what goes through the minds of these little ones when they are sitting and staring as he is in this picture to the left.
I put his picture on the front of the brochure never knowing that someone would approach me and say that I want to sponsor this little one. Is it a girl, I want a little girl and I want this one. Well, he is a little boy but the woman said that she wanted to help him anyway even if he wasn't a little girl. I was excited and went to work to get her the profile on him.
Trevor has now been sponsored for five months and already I can see a world of difference in his life.
He is now looking healthier and is beginning to show a lot more life in his face with a beautiful smile. He is quite funny and very playful. He likes Sunday school and church cause he has other kids to play with and often comes to me to sit on my lap. He likes to learn the songs and sing them and clap his hands.
He still has some stomach from worm, but has been dewormed already twice and is beginning to look much better. I believe he feels better too.
One of the things that children need as much as food is love. They need the nurturing, love and care from a mother, and others around them. Since the sponsorship program helps the child and the mother with food, and by paying for school, etc. (which he is not in school as yet), it takes a load off of the mother. Not the responsibility, but a load. She still has to look after him, raise him, watch him, etc. It is good when the mother has an interest in knowing Jesus and make sit a lot easier to help a child.
I want to tell you the story of another boy that we help that was much like Trevor when he was little. His name was Sula. Sula had a mother that was struggling. The father had other wives and was not interested in her any longer or the child. He had sent them to live in a mud hut and basically that was the end of it. The boy had a lot of sickness because of the way they were living. He kept having ear infections and actually lost part of his hearing. The mother had no funds to take him to a doctor. When we met Sula he was very sick and came to stay in my home for a month until he could get well. We nourished him back with proper medicine and gave the mother a break for a month. She had other children as well. His ears, however, continued to give him problems for many years. The mother totally left the father and went to live with her mother, Sula's Grandmother. There she was able to take a little better care of Sula, but not much. She said she could not have done it without the help of sponsorship in her life and Jesus. Sula is now in his second year of high school at a good school (still sponsored) and one of the best students in the school. He hears fine and is so thankful to God for the help he has had in his life. He realizes that the Lord has been with him all the time, even when he was having such a hard and difficult time.
God does make the difference, and he has given us the ability to do it. We are his hands, we are his feet, we are the voice and we are the ones that must make the choice to make a difference in the life of a child - one child at a time. It is the most wonderful and exciting thing to see as they grow up into loving, healthy, Christian leaders that I know are going to make a difference.
God bless you - Momma k
This is what the work I do is all about with the children. Watching them grow up and get educated, come to Jesus and really their whole lives changed, it is so exciting to see. Nothing can compare to this other than the day when I actually get to be with Jesus face to face.
We started a sponsorship for a three year old little boy named Trevor. He is so cute with such big eyes and such a sweet manor about him. He just comes up and wants to be hugged and feel loved. He lives with his Grandparents and his mother. His mother became pregnant and the father took off. She was very young and could not manage to care for him hardly at all. She has really tried, however, and I felt strong that this is a boy that we can make a difference through and in with the Spirit of our Lord. Please pray for him as he grows to grow with Jesus.
Trevor had severe malnutrition as you can see in the picture below. He has really suffered for someone so young. Often going with no food at all, just as his mother does. The Grandparents are old and do not work and have no income. The gardens are their main source of food and they are small gardens. This is often the case with the vulnerable children that we work with.
I put his picture on the front of the brochure never knowing that someone would approach me and say that I want to sponsor this little one. Is it a girl, I want a little girl and I want this one. Well, he is a little boy but the woman said that she wanted to help him anyway even if he wasn't a little girl. I was excited and went to work to get her the profile on him.
Trevor has now been sponsored for five months and already I can see a world of difference in his life.
He is now looking healthier and is beginning to show a lot more life in his face with a beautiful smile. He is quite funny and very playful. He likes Sunday school and church cause he has other kids to play with and often comes to me to sit on my lap. He likes to learn the songs and sing them and clap his hands.
He still has some stomach from worm, but has been dewormed already twice and is beginning to look much better. I believe he feels better too.
One of the things that children need as much as food is love. They need the nurturing, love and care from a mother, and others around them. Since the sponsorship program helps the child and the mother with food, and by paying for school, etc. (which he is not in school as yet), it takes a load off of the mother. Not the responsibility, but a load. She still has to look after him, raise him, watch him, etc. It is good when the mother has an interest in knowing Jesus and make sit a lot easier to help a child.
I want to tell you the story of another boy that we help that was much like Trevor when he was little. His name was Sula. Sula had a mother that was struggling. The father had other wives and was not interested in her any longer or the child. He had sent them to live in a mud hut and basically that was the end of it. The boy had a lot of sickness because of the way they were living. He kept having ear infections and actually lost part of his hearing. The mother had no funds to take him to a doctor. When we met Sula he was very sick and came to stay in my home for a month until he could get well. We nourished him back with proper medicine and gave the mother a break for a month. She had other children as well. His ears, however, continued to give him problems for many years. The mother totally left the father and went to live with her mother, Sula's Grandmother. There she was able to take a little better care of Sula, but not much. She said she could not have done it without the help of sponsorship in her life and Jesus. Sula is now in his second year of high school at a good school (still sponsored) and one of the best students in the school. He hears fine and is so thankful to God for the help he has had in his life. He realizes that the Lord has been with him all the time, even when he was having such a hard and difficult time.
God does make the difference, and he has given us the ability to do it. We are his hands, we are his feet, we are the voice and we are the ones that must make the choice to make a difference in the life of a child - one child at a time. It is the most wonderful and exciting thing to see as they grow up into loving, healthy, Christian leaders that I know are going to make a difference.
God bless you - Momma k
