I love Christmas time. A time to remember that our Lord, Jesus Christ was born into this world to die for us and to take the punishment for our sins. What a loving Lord He is and what an amazing love He has had for us and has for us. He came into this world with nothing and left with nothing but love! I cannot understand how anyone can deny Him their love. He is the most wonderful person in my life and He is my everything.
I cannot say enough wonderful about my Lord, Jesus Christ and I hope that all of you are thinking of Him always too. He cares about everyone. He loves me, you and all people, young or old!
As I think of his love and realize that He is the one who put Uganda in my heart and He is the owner of the vision that I have for Uganda and the children there, it brings me to tears. A country where children are not born with any dreams or hope, but when they learn about Him they have hope.
I remember one such little boy named Benard. He was only three years old. He was sponsored by a woman and her husband from Colorado. Benard lived with his parents, who were extremely poverty stricken. His father drank day and night and even brewed his own liquor. He abused the mother on a regular basis, beating her until she would have to go to a clinic for help because of bruising. He often would hit the little boy as well.
Benard would get up early in the morning to go to the gardens with his mother. He had a goat from his sponsor and he would take the goat with him. As his mother worked, he worked side by side with her and tied his goat up near by. He would often eat something like a raw sweet potatoe for breakfast. He was a very shy and quiet little boy and very afraid of men. He was not in good shape at all, he had malnutrition and a big belly full of worms that were eating his food. He slept in a mud hut with his mother and would get bites all night long from mosquitos and ants. He had no dreams with such a life.
One morning when he and his mother were out working in the gardens, he felt something disturbing his goat so he went to see what it was. He saw a big snake and was scared but went over and untied his goat and got a big bite on the ankle. His mother did not know what to do and she told him to get to the clinic fast. She sent him on foot while she followed. She did not know that walking there was the worst thing for him. He fell on the way and died before he ever reached the clinic. This snake was a cobra.
We buried him the next day. His sponsorship money bought him a sheet to be wrapped in, a coffin, and a hole dug with bricks and cement put around the area where his coffin would lay. I cried so hard and the mother could not stop crying. She kept saying my little boy, my little Benard. Wow, even though this was nearly ten years ago I will never forget little Benard and how quickly his little life was ended in the village of Kamonkoli.
Please pray for his mother, she is still struggling with the husband and now resorts to a witchdoctor to help her. She lost heart and cannot believe that there is a God who loves her so much and cares about her as Jesus does.
I cannot say enough wonderful about my Lord, Jesus Christ and I hope that all of you are thinking of Him always too. He cares about everyone. He loves me, you and all people, young or old!
As I think of his love and realize that He is the one who put Uganda in my heart and He is the owner of the vision that I have for Uganda and the children there, it brings me to tears. A country where children are not born with any dreams or hope, but when they learn about Him they have hope.
I remember one such little boy named Benard. He was only three years old. He was sponsored by a woman and her husband from Colorado. Benard lived with his parents, who were extremely poverty stricken. His father drank day and night and even brewed his own liquor. He abused the mother on a regular basis, beating her until she would have to go to a clinic for help because of bruising. He often would hit the little boy as well.
Benard would get up early in the morning to go to the gardens with his mother. He had a goat from his sponsor and he would take the goat with him. As his mother worked, he worked side by side with her and tied his goat up near by. He would often eat something like a raw sweet potatoe for breakfast. He was a very shy and quiet little boy and very afraid of men. He was not in good shape at all, he had malnutrition and a big belly full of worms that were eating his food. He slept in a mud hut with his mother and would get bites all night long from mosquitos and ants. He had no dreams with such a life.
One morning when he and his mother were out working in the gardens, he felt something disturbing his goat so he went to see what it was. He saw a big snake and was scared but went over and untied his goat and got a big bite on the ankle. His mother did not know what to do and she told him to get to the clinic fast. She sent him on foot while she followed. She did not know that walking there was the worst thing for him. He fell on the way and died before he ever reached the clinic. This snake was a cobra.
We buried him the next day. His sponsorship money bought him a sheet to be wrapped in, a coffin, and a hole dug with bricks and cement put around the area where his coffin would lay. I cried so hard and the mother could not stop crying. She kept saying my little boy, my little Benard. Wow, even though this was nearly ten years ago I will never forget little Benard and how quickly his little life was ended in the village of Kamonkoli.
Please pray for his mother, she is still struggling with the husband and now resorts to a witchdoctor to help her. She lost heart and cannot believe that there is a God who loves her so much and cares about her as Jesus does.
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