I can’t believe I am heading into my last week at Agape. I have been doing ministry here for about a month and a half. It has honestly been hard. It has been emotionally hard. I still remember the day we walked into Agape home and watched a video called “Leave her to die”. It talked about how Agape came to be. Agape used to be a place where kids with AIDS would die, it was a place where they weren’t expected to survive more than a few years. As time passed by, the government was able to give medicine to the kids and prevent them from getting AIDS and having HIV under control before it turns deadly. It has now turned into an orphanage of kids living with HIV then dying of AIDS. When I watched the video, I couldn’t imagine or control what I felt inside. I began to cry and saw how much love and pain was there. They took care of the children knowing there were not going to survive but wanted to let them feel loved and know what was physical touch. They were an outcast of society and where left in beds to die, never being touched and never loved.
“Leave her to die” Video below (Watch it please)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAoENDMDl5w
When I finally had the opportunity to see the kids there. I went straight to the babies. I held one baby in particular, I was told she has special needs and was most likely never getting adopted. I held her close and I was heart broken. When I saw those beautiful eyes, I saw how much love they want. I wanted to take her home at that moment. They don’t deserve to be here for decisions they didn’t make. I wanted to love them as much as I could. I made a bound with her and she to me. Even though they are there, you see so much love. The kids running around with smiles on there faces and the people who work there, mostly live there so they can love them 100%. Some of them even live with the kids in group homes on the orphanage to make it a family.
The most important thing I learned was the definition of Agape love. I saw it, I saw it in there smiles. I saw it in there laugh. I saw it in there hugs. I saw it everywhere. The more time I spent there, the kids started running to us when they saw us. I felt a love for them so big and I began to think. If I love them this much, the people there love them even more, and God even loves them more than that. He made a way so that this can happen. He lives in those people and when you see them, you see Agape love.
John 13:34
“34 A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”
1 John 4:12-13
“12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.
Ephesians 4:2-3
2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
