My friends and I use to say we were going to move to Africa and adopt kids and pigs because school was too hard or too pointless or too stressful. The potentially scary (mostly for my parents) part is that I was never joking. My heart is with orphans. I want to help every single one. No one in the galaxy should think they are not loved. No one deserves to be abandoned in playgrounds or at the foot of a hospital door. This is why I want to be Katie from "Kisses from Katie" (If you haven't read this, stop reading my blog and go buy it.) All the while I understand there are reasons these things happen and many of the children end up in a much better place (for example, my precious sister).
My biggest fear for today after looking at blogs and watching videos on sex trafficking, is that I will get in trouble for trying to smuggle a precious child into my backpack. I already want my parents to adopt again so I can have another precious little face around and I can't wait to adopt for my own family, but I just don't think that will be able to start during the race.
We were orphans until our Daddy adopted us, we didn't deserve to be loved until He loved us. We don't deserve the grace He gives us but His heart was made for orphans.
I have been getting my degree in social work for four years and have dabbled in different concentration interests. Kids, definitely kids…but after my internship this year I have heard God loud and clear that I am not meant to minister to junior high kids. Then I became very interested in human trafficking, the fact that there are more slaves today than ever before in the history of the world ASTOUNDS me. But what astounds me more is that so many people are completely oblivious to that. I've always been interested in working with orphans. But it turns out, my heart was made for orphans, who often end up being victims of trafficking once they age out of their orphanage. Everyone deserves a chance and many of these kids never get one.
One of the things I am most looking forward to on the race is sharing the Light of the world with kids who have never seen love in their lives. The sad fact is that if they had been born in America, they would probably never face the future of selling themselves because they have no other skills. One of the things I am least looking forward to, is having to leave these children behind after a month. My prayers are already going out to those we will be ministering to, that God will show up and intervene in their lives. I pray our witness will change lives and provide opportunities that would have never been possible before.
I invite you to pray with me, this month I am praying for my first country, Rwanda.
I am praying for…
the ministry contacts we will have
those we will encounter on the field
my team, their health, and their hearts
opportunity
