I love that God gives his children visions and dreams so they know he is real. As I prepare for the trip God has shown me a few images this time. He has shown me a line of children in a Cambodian Brothel lined up and my hands touch each child’s cheeks. Last night in my dreams I met a pregnant 12 year old.
This visions and dreams remind me of a time before I was even called to Haiti. Prophecy can sometimes just be a shadow or a piece but I specifically remember telling my friend Marci after a time of prayer that someone was going to give a little black child to the church. I remember her sweet cheeks.
Months later I was called and went to Haiti; the dream/vision I had months earlier had temporarily left my mind. Shortly after we arrived the House mother needed to have an X-ray and the hospital had been closed each attempt. They asked if I wanted to go along for the ride; I promptly said yes.
Once we arrived at the hospital they started speaking to the house mother in creole. I asked her what they were saying. She told me there was a little child with CP that was abandoned at a church and wondered if Hands and Feet would take her. My eyes filled with tears remembering my vision I knew it had to be her. They brought her in and laid her on a stretcher. She was almost 3 but did not talk yet but smiled a ton. I stood over her and rubbed her tummy for about 30 minutes while they talked about her fate. Her smile said to me I know you and I recognized her from my vision/ dream.
Turns out that she had been to Hands and Feet with her mom several months earlier; about when I had the vision. The mom was trying to get them to take her but they could not because of the requirements of her illness and they referred her to another organization down the street; the mother never went.
Her name by the way is Natalie Jumper now; she was adopted by a full-time missionary that worked down the street at the time and now works at Hands and Feet.
I believe that God wanted me to meet Natalie so he could show me that I was right where I was supposed to be. Whatever the reason I fell in love with her smile and it changed my heart forever. I can’t wait to meet the children in the brothel and the pregnant 12 year old ! God is great and he likes us to know he draws up all the plans.
