Ministry this month is pretty simple: work at the national hospital. They have one hospital with 120 beds for at least one million people. The first day we got a tour of the hospital, it seemed pretty bad. The walls were supposed to be cream and blue, but they all looked brown from all the dirt. Some were splattered with some kind of brown sticky stuff. Every corner was covered with cobwebs. Everything was still done in paper; I did not see one computer. The machines that they had seemed like they were hand-me-downs, pretty sure donated to them.
Most of the time was spent working with hospital maintenance. Fixing some machines, painting the walls of the emergency room and the babies' room, and fixing lockers. But my favorite part about working in the hospital is getting to take care of Macario and Rosario. These two babies were abandoned by their parents.
Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world. – James 1:27
Macario was found suffering from malnutrition. They said they weren't expecting him to survive the week before we got to Guatemala. 
He is three years old, but looks like a 6 month old baby. He can't even sit up yet. When we first started taking care of him, he wasn't the happiest baby. He kept crying and swatting us away every time we tried to touch him.
We just kept loving on him.
The second time I went to visit, he was laughing inside his little crib. When he saw me get close to him, he lifted up his tiny little arms as if to say, "carry me!" So I did. I sang to him, and cradled him, and he finally fell asleep in my arms. It was beautiful. I cannot imagine why anybody would give up this precious little boy. I prayed that God would bring his forever family soon, and give him people that will lead him to the Lord as he grows up. This kid was supposed to die, but God decided it wasn't his time yet. I can't imagine to see what God has planned for this his life.
What I love and hold on to is this: Rosario's and Macario's parents may have abandoned them, but they have the Perfect Father who is will never ever abandon them. And you can see, in the short amount of time that these kids have been on this earth, that our Daddy's hands has been on them ever since He had decided he was going to give these precious kids the beautiful gift of life, with biological parents or not.
I will never leave you as orphans; I will come to you… – John 14:18
