After 54 hours of flying, busing, and train riding, we have finally reached our ministry site here in Muizenberg, South Africa. But more on that later. This post is about my last month in China.
First and foremost, I apologize for the fact that I didn’t make it very clear that I would be on hiatus for that month, as a way to protect ourselves and our ministry contacts. With China being a religiously closed country and all. I would like to say that I am still very much alive, hurray!
We were situated Jiaozuo of the Henan province, about a 6 hour train ride south of Beijing. I along with my team had the opportunity to work with Eagles Wings, an orphanage that serves children with special needs. Their disabilities include cerebral palsy, spina bifida, down syndrome, blindness and others. Unlike the States, China has invested very little towards the lives of such people. They are deemed worthless by society and they are institutionalized throughout their entire lives. Some of the children we worked with are fully cognitively there, but they are cheated out of an education simply because schools don’t have wheel chair access.
Though as Sara, Jessica, and I were feeding 3 boys delicious noodles in tomato soup on one of our outings, God pulled me back and said “See? As much as this government, this society, and these people have forgotten these children, I have not. That is why I have sent you here, to be a testament to the love that I have for them.” And it was there that I was not only reminded of an ever-present Kingdom, but of one that is also forth-coming.
Let your Kingdom come Lord God, and let these children rise up on wings like eagles!
And much thanks to Donna and her family for hosting us and letting us be a part of theirs, God bless!
China highlights:
-Talking to the kids in Chinese. My Chinese is at its peak right now. Will continue to develop it.
-Driving a motorcart.
-Instant boba milk tea.
-Hiked the Great Wall all the way up to the clouds
-Pee’d off said Great Wall.
-XiHongShiChaoJiDan. Tomatoes scrambled with eggs, a common mandarin dish.
