Thank you to everyone who prayers for our children still living on the
streets, periodically we meet with two of the street children in
our programs, ask about them and how we can tell other people to pray
for them. We then pray with that child and try and encourage them. Here
are the prayer requests from two children in our street children
programs. Also, David and I are going back to Uganda in just a little over a
week and one of the first things that we want to do is bring in more
children into our homes. Please pray that God will guide us, from the
many children in our street programs, which children He wants for us to
bring into our home! |
Ssekamaya Patiya I was at home when my dad did not want us to go to school, he would make us work in the gardens and he would wait for the time of harvesting so that we can sell of the surplus to the market, we did what our dad told us but all the money we got he used it for personal things and he told us we can dig again but all it was in vain. It was one day that my elder brother came and took me to stay with him, he told me he is going to take me to school and as soon as we reach his home. I waited for some time to see my brother fulfilling his promise but as I was waiting he came up with an idea that we should plant rice and we can earn good money from it then your dream will come to pass. We cleared the land, planted rice in it and I was told to look after it, I used to go there a lone from morning until evening because I had to prevent birds from destroying the rice but some time I felt tired and rested but whenever, he could find me resting or the birds in the plantation I was beaten badly. After we harvested the rice we got a lot of money and my brother told me that next week I was going back to school. I dreamed about going to school, and I started drawing pictures how school looks like and how I could look when am in the school uniform. Two weeks passed and I reminded him, he told me can we plant rice one more time and I accepted but in pain. He did the same thing again by having me work and harvesting the rice but using the money for himself and not helping me. I ran to my uncle's home, he welcomed with both hands and I explained to him why I had come to his house, he told me his family was already too many and too big a burden. He told me he could not afford to take me back to school, but that if one day he can become rich, he would take me back to school. The following day I was told to go to the garden and dig, water the crops, I stayed there for some good times and I had given up on my dream because every time I could look at my uncle's children going to school, tears became my drink. One day we were having lunch my elder brother came and he told my uncle that he wanted me to go with him, we reached home and I was punished heavily, he gave me orders of cooking food but I was not supposed to eat until he comes home. I was starving and my big brother would beat me anytime he saw me eating. I was told to work. Life became hard and I felt that I was not loved but instead I was forced to work for others gain. I made up my mind and escaped from there, I walked day and night for three days until I reached Kampala. I have many things that I would like for people to pray for me for. Please pray for me to have a place to stay and be safe. Please pray that I will find people who can treat me as if am their own child and love me. Please pray that I can go back to school and that my dream of studying will come to pass. God bless you. |
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Street child prayer requests
Street Child Prayer Requests #2
Saturday, February 16, 2013
We will continue to pray and to reach for more
"We are paralyzed in a poverty of hope because, first,
we underestimate the value of what God has given us to transform lives. Second,
we underestimate the value of a single life. And third, we underestimate God’s
determination to rescue us from a trivial existence if we just free up our
hands and our hearts from unworthy distractions and apply them to matters that
make a difference in someone else’s life. …Likewise, when our grandchildren ask
us where we were when the weak and the voiceless and the vulnerable of our era
needed a leader of compassion and purpose and hope – I hope we can say that we
showed up, and that we showed up on time. And that the very God of history
might say, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.'”
Gary Haugen, Terrify No More
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Thank you
I just wanted to say thank you so much to everyone that sent books, games and legos for the boys! It was such a blessing and I just wanted to say thank you from the bottom of our hearts! We cannot wait to give it to the boys! We are going to be bringing in many new boys in the next few months if the Lord allows and we are so excited for them to have them to play with!
THANK YOU!!!!!!
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Yes it is the same boy!
Enoch in blue at home! |
Enoch |
Enoch Bossa our newest addition |
Enoch Bossa |
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Enoch is home
Enoch at the street children programs |
I had been hearing about a little boy named Enoch for (not the cutie-pie in our home, "another one") for a couple of days and getting some subtle hints from friends that he would be, "GREAT for the home". One day I heard that he had come to the programs. He had touched a transformer box and had been severely electrocuted. He was swaggering around when one of our uncles, Lawrence found him. He brought him to the programs where Amy treated his badly burned hand and his head (where the electricity exited). We quickly fell in love with him and wanted to bring him into our home. However, before we could he went missing.
He keeps going missing and we have been praying for him and looking for him for a long time. Every night David and I have been praying that God would bring him home to us.
We finally found him again a week again, but after asking about his home, he thought we might take him home against his will and this really scared him and so he went into hiding. Our uncles
went everywhere in the slums looking for him. We wanted to tell him we
weren't going to force him to go anywhere and we simply bring him into
our forever homes. After about a week he decided to trust us and came back to the programs.
Two days ago they found Enoch and we were able to bring him
home! We are
rejoicing that after searching for him for such a long time, God finally led
him home and that he is now a part of our family.
Working with
street children it is always about, "the one". Seeing children one by
one, listening to them, one by one. Watching a heart wake up, one child at a
time.
It is
through relationship, and trust, and sacrifice, and that can only be done, one
child at a time. Not through numbers but through relationship.
Enoch
was just one street child. One child of the many in our programs. He was just
one child of many arrested that day, one child of many being held in a cell and
finding a way to escape. But to God and to us he is precious, loved and now, he
is family. He is like that lost sheep, the one that was sought for until it was
found.
I am
praying that God will continue to make it possible for us to bring more
children home that have none and to open our eyes to see like He sees.
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