We have moved out of the city to a farm. For a more information on our work, read
Brady’s blog-
Chicken’s Don’t Sleep
(www.bradydenger.theworldrace.org.) It’s a fun, but informative day-in-the-life-of blog that I highly recommend reading. I helped edit it, and she left my comments in red.
During the day, we visit care points. Care points are locations where orphans run around while grandmothers from the community cook their one meal a day. I hold three, four and five year olds that weigh the amount of a healthy toddler.
One day last week, my team left the care points and went grocery shopping. As we walked around selecting dinner items, I couldn’t help but feel like fellow shoppers were staring at all the food in our cart. Maybe they weren’t staring at our food; maybe I was projecting because I was staring at their lack of food.
I just can’t help like feeling like my team is living in the lap of luxury. Our grocery budget is $2.75 a day. This means that we can eat three meals a day. In addition to that, our generous contacts gave us a large basket of oranges and two kettles (this makes cooking over a fire 100 times easier.)
We even have one electrical outlet that we use to heat water in an electrical kettle. This means that I not only have drinking water, but I can fill my water bottle with hot water at night to put at the foot of my sleeping bag.
I don’t feel guilty, I just feel unbelievably grateful.
God has given to us in abundance. Because He gives to us, we can give to others.
Many meals we have extra food that we share with others. One of the happiest moments of my day is when we invite Timba (the night guard at the farm) to join us for dinner. One night as he ate dinner with us, he asked us when we were going to pray. We told him after dinner. That night we were able to not only share food with him, but also we were able to share
life with him.
As we go to the care points, my dream is to be able to share with the orphans not only meals but also life. We work to meet the physical hunger of the orphans, so that we can introduce them to a God who can meet the hunger in their souls.
“I am the Bread of Life. He who comes to me will never go hungry and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.” John 6:35
