Halfway point….there is a part of me that feels that these past 6 months have gone by too fast and THEN there is another part that feels like it has gone by EXTREMELY slow. In these past months, my prior world view has been completely wrecked. I now see things through completely different eyes. I can’t even buy a shirt over 5 dollars and not think how many children in Cambodia I could feed with it. And I am NOT saying the fact that I want to buy less expensive clothes makes me a changed person, BUT it does represent a new shift in my thinking. The experiences I have had thus far have forever changed how I view my role in the Kingdom.
I now have a deep seeded desire to spread the word of what is happening in these countries and the
injustice that is taking place. I can’t not tell people about
Jaron, the tiny orphaned baby I held just two short months ago that is now in heaven, because the orphanage did not have the resources for a simple surgery that he needed. I can’t be silent about the thousands and thousands of women and children who are
trafficked all over the world every day. These issues that I have experienced first hand are REAL, they are tangible to me now.
The poor, the unloved, the sick….they are no longer the faces I see on my television screen or the stories I read about in the newspaper. They are human beings, children of God that I have met, loved on, and held. They are the elderly in the villages in Mexico that live without running water and no one to care for them. They are the children that work in the dumps in Guatemala to buy food for their family. They are the AIDS patients in Vietnam. They are the children that do not eat unless they have a sponsor family in Cambodia. They are the women in prostitution that are forced to sell their bodies in order to feed their children in Thailand. These people are NOT on my television screen, they are my friends, my new famiy, my brothers and sisters in Christ.
Being given this year to minister to people all over the world is a gift, but with this gift also comes great responsibility. I am now responsible for telling the stories of the people and children that can not do it themselves. I am responsible to get the word out about the devastation, the hunger, and the hurt that I have seen.
Silence is no longer an option.
For more information or to donate to any of these causes, please check out these links or contact me directly.
Support Women coming out of Prostitution in Thailand: http://www.tamarcards.com/
Slum Ministry: http://www.projlife.com/
Human Trafficking:
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