Pray, pray! Please, pray! I look down into the brown eyes of a young Indian orphan named Minosh who is holding up a brand new pencil that he wants me to pray over and then sharpen for him and I can’t help but chuckle at least a little bit. I’ve never prayed for an inanimate object until this point. But sure, I’ll pray for your pencil dude! I love his faith, he wants me to pray for his pencil, of all things—true childlike faith in action, folks.
Minosh is one of ten orphan boys that lives at the first of the four orphanages in Coastal Andhra Pradesh I and my team are visiting this month. Each home has ten orphans that have lost either one or both parents, and if they have lost just one parent, the other gave them up because they could no longer take care of them.
These ten boys at the first home absolutely captured my heart from the moment I met them—Minosh, Sairam, Vijay, Raj, Lachsman, Acer, Munna, Cy, Priven, and Ranjeet. Each with their own story that I only wish I got to hear more of.
This is Cy wearing my shades: come on, how do you not love this kid??
We were able to have homework parties after school, read English with them, play with them while showing them the love of a Father, and pray over them tons, prayers for life and blessings over their future, which was absolutely amazing, and incredibly humbling. They were always so willing to ask for prayer about anything. Prayer for pencils, for dinner, for playing, and even for no apparent reason at all it was not uncommon to have one of the boys just walk up to you, say “pray, pray, please!” and then bow their head in front of you to place your hand on their head and pray for them.
These young boys will grow up to be men of God, world changers, India changers and Andhra Pradesh changers for the Kingdom! These are the future lawyers, doctors, pastors, missionaries and fathers of India.
This is Minosh 🙂
