A video Amanda made from our time in the DR last month
Yesterday I was playing dominoes with Herby when he said he
had to go with the driver to the “market”; so thinking we were going to the
grocery store, I tagged along and thought I might get a Gatorade or something.
Four truckloads and 400 cement bricks later, we now have some bricks to repair
the wall and building which were damaged during the earth quake. My backs a
little sore from loading and unloading them all, but It felt good to do some
manual labor. Today, Francis, the owner of the orphanage, returned and got to
share with us how the orphanage came to be.
She
was working in the peace core when she gave a fellow worker a ride home because
her normal ride was sick. This lady normally took leftover food “home for her
dogs”, but when Francis pulled up to where the lady was staying she saw a line
of 30ish children with bowls.
Turns out she was bringing the leftover home to do what she could to
feed many starving children. Compelled with compassion Francis began cooking
more food so there would be more leftover. Eventually she began serving the
children food once a week at her home. Once a week turned into twice and there
times, then four. From there was heart wrenching miraculous story after story
of children being dropped off or left, outside the orphanage gate or abandoned.
One child she brought into the hospital the nurse told her was dead and the
morgue was on another floor. Long story short hes is older now and alive and
well. Some parents were killed,
some couldn’t afford or just didn’t want them, but now she is their mother. Her
house is there’s. They have a school and safety and food and clothing and
shelter and a love for God.
She’s truly an amazing women and
I’m inspired to help her and the children out these remaining 2 weeks. I
believe will be putting a roof on the cafeteria they’re building and other work as well as playing with
the kids and teaching English and doing vacation bible school on the weekends. We were able to go to
the beach and the mountains which were both beautiful. I think were going to
make a trip to a waterfall as well sometime, I’ll try to put some pictures or a
video up. Thanks for all your prayers.
**If you’d like to support Florence and the orphanage you can check out their website http://renmenhaiti.org/en/about-us.html
James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
