Surprised by Love

Since coming to our home all of the children have become Christians. This is the most important thing of all and our number one goal. We give our children food, clothing and education but none of it means anything if we don’t give them Jesus as well. But now in only a few short months they love Jesus and are becoming famous all over our area for their worship. Buddhist teenagers come from our town to hear our children sing each night during worship. This prompted us to do a free concert to reach our Thai neighbors who are 100 percent Buddhist. We worked with another children’s home and an American missions team to make this an unprecedented event. We had more than 300 people and after 3 hours of music, drama and preaching over 150 people accepted Jesus as their Lord and many others received Bibles and literature. The children have come so far and it’s in their hearts not just to receive but to give. They understand that God chose them and blessed them. Some of them have told me how their family doesn’t have food and I tell them “God chose you and blessed you so you can bless your family and give to others as you have been given to.” They look forward to the day when they can help their families and their villages and fulfill the plan God has on their lives. Right now we spend between $150—$200 dollars a month on rice. Simply because the children eat so much!! So many of them were starving when they came that they still are not used to having food everyday so they eat like there will be none tomorrow. It takes a long time for them to be secure in the fact that they will always have food. God’s love is changing them and it is a miracle to watch what God’s love can do. When I moved to these mountains I expected it to be hard and it was and I expected God to be faithful and He was very much so and I expected to learn a lot and I have, but what I didn’t expect was to love these children the way I do. I was surprised by love. I feel so inadequate for the job God has given me. I don’t know enough and am not wise enough and my prayers and faith are not perfect and I am definitely not perfect but God gave me the best tool He could have given me to enable me to do this impossible task—He put His love in my heart for these children and God’s love is stronger than all the things that I am not. And it is enough everyday. Thank God– without Him we can do nothing, nothing at all