I am still trying to catch up writing about our weekend...Saturday we got the opportunity to play Santa Claus to a needy family here in Lima. Let me tell you the story of this mom..she's a pretty cool lady. A year ago, the government came to take away her five children because she was leaving them home alone to go work. She is a single mother and that was the only way to provide for them. But she said "No way am I going without my kids" (or something like that :) and she moved INTO the orphanage with her kids. They lived there for a year, but in July, they had to leave. Now this is where we come in. I spent a week at this orphanage in June with my interns and a church group from Indiana. We heard her story and the church and my girls decided to help...they took up a collection and left it here with Buckner to purchase household items for this lady and her kids.
Fast-forward to last weekend...one of the Buckner staff went and bought mattresses, a refrigerator, kitchen items, blankets, etc. And on Sat, we got to deliver it all! When I say this woman has nothing, I mean nothing...but her church and the orphanage bought her a little four room house that was a luxury for them. There were no floors..only dirt. She told us she has to pour water on the ground to keep it from being dusty. They have no running water. No bathroom. No electricity. But they were so grateful and thankful for the few things we brought them. The children are just adorable. We learned such a lesson from this experience..about contentment...in America, we have everything we possibly need AND want..but still we want more. We are so blessed...yet we complain about minor nuisances (I am including myself in all this!) The poor people of the world suffer and lack many material things...yet they are rich in the fact that they know contentment...and they truly see their
need for God.
I am still trying to catch up writing about our weekend...Saturday we got the opportunity to play Santa Claus to a needy family here in Lima. Let me tell you the story of this mom..she's a pretty cool lady. A year ago, the government came to take away her five children because she was leaving them home alone to go work. She is a single mother and that was the only way to provide for them. But she said "No way am I going without my kids" (or something like that :) and she moved INTO the orphanage with her kids. They lived there for a year, but in July, they had to leave. Now this is where we come in. I spent a week at this orphanage in June with my interns and a church group from Indiana. We heard her story and the church and my girls decided to help...they took up a collection and left it here with Buckner to purchase household items for this lady and her kids.
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