Saturday Night Plans

I never used to be much for making official plans on Saturday
nights.

Do I enjoy going out and doing things? Yes, but it’s never
really been something I had to do.

I’ve always been just as content to sit and read, or watch a
movie, or just hang around.

 

So having Saturday night plans while I’m out on The World Race
is a new one for me.

Especially because Saturday night plans for many people
involve some form of dating or going out.

All this to say, yes, I do have Saturday night plans this
month…

And I’m so happy to have made them.

 

Why?

Because my plans involve thirty kids between the ages of 3
and 15ish at the New Faith
Family Christian
Home (one of the orphanages owned
by Kids International Ministries).

Well, thirty kids, Charity, a guitar player, and whatever
devotion God lays on our hearts to share with said kids.

 

We went out for the first time this past Saturday night –
Charity, Drew, the kids, and I. It was great.

I shared the story of Esther, and the kids knew it by heart.

Drew did some awesome guitar picking – a little “Jesus Lover
of My Soul” and “Lord I Lift Your Name On High”, songs the kids chose and sang
their hearts out to.

And Charity did an awesome wrap-up of Esther.

All in all, it was about fifteen or twenty minutes that made
my night.

 

It made my night because the joy these kids sang with makes
the “joyful noise” I’ve grown so used to at home sound like a funeral dirge.

They sang like they’ve been to the places these songs go…
because they’ve been there.

What they know about the Bible at their age makes what
little I know all the more evident.

And while I left the orphanage feeling convicted about that,
I also left knowing I gave them things in return that they value every bit as
much I value the joy they gave me.

Because the things I gave in return were my time, and love, which are the two things they desire most.