Agape home!
This month we are partnering with Agape home/Nikkis place. It is a family based orphanage with 92 children all with HIV or at risk for. It is on a big plot of land with about 6 houses that the boys and girls live in and there is a nursery for the babies and toddlers. We haven’t had a whole tour yet but it is huge and beautiful. We help in the center there and we are making jump ropes for Samaritans Purse. We cut rope then burn the ends and maybe our fingers with it. Drill holes in the end of the pvc pipes then put the rope in it and tie it and then we wrap it up super tight. We do that everyday because we need to make 15,000 of them(:
One of my heart’s desires ever since I was little was to have an orphanage or at the least foster as many children as I could. I have never known how I will ever accomplish this or where I would do it or anything really besides I know the Lord gave me that and it will happen in His time and I have to trust that. I was raised in a house where my mom always gave us hugs everyday and told us she loved us and genuinely cared about our day and how it went. We ALWAYS sat down as a family and ate dinner together. I never realized how blessed I was growing up in a family like that (SHOUTOUT to my awesome parents). As I grew up I started making friends that their family never ate together, they ate in their rooms or just all at different times. I never saw them hug their parents or heard their parents say that they loved them only just yell at them for things they are doing wrong. (Not trying to tell you how to raise your kids just putting my observations down) But something about that always made, and makes me so mad. I have seen how my friends with parents that didn’t eat together and just there acceptance of love is different and maybe not that health and there relationship with there parents now as they are getting older is still just not good.
Anyways my point in that is one of my heart desires is to run an orphanage or at the least foster as many children as the lord will allow and create a safe house for them to feel loved and important. To come home to someone that cares about them and treats them like they are apart of a family because I believe every child deserves that. Every child deserves to feel unconditional love from the fathers heart and that may just start with a person and from there they will seek Him who gives them it all. I don’t know what will happen in my life but I do know that the Lord will be working in many ways and that he gave me these desires for a reason. I plan on going back to college when I come home to pursue nursing because I also want to do stuff with medical missions. So this month I am hoping the Lord will give me more clarity with these dreams and I know they will take time and I will have to be patient but I am so excited to see what the Lord will do.
Thanks for reading my messy thought(:
Love ya, God Bless,
Sydney
