Saturday! Kids come today and they are about our age and younger. I believe ‘’our age’’ means 13 and 14 though. I’m praying everything will go smoothly so that they would have a lasting impact put on them of Christ.
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| Gloria playing minute to win it |
Today we had about 15 kids in our group. I was getting very frustrated because I am so inadequate and the kids were not responding very much. I am ashamed to admit that I had basically given up, was not trying to be joyful, and was just ready to be done. Finally lunch came at around 2:30 and everyone was tired and snapping at each other. After lunch everything changed for me and God changed my heart.
First of all I need to tell about my footwashing experience before lunch. I washed two little boys feet, a thirteen year old girl named Gloria, and a boy about that age named Charles. This experience caused me to see how little they have and let it impact me. Gloria’s feet were wide like most of the people’s here. This caused us not to be able to find any shoes that really fit her. The ones I put on her were too long and I was truly hurt to have to watch her deal with these shoes that did not fit her and that she did not like. Charles also did not have shoes that fit him. She is thirteen. At thirteen I went shoe shopping and found shoes I liked and they fit me. I also was shown how they have so little by their torn clothes and pile of old shoes. They wear their best clothes when they come here and most of their clothes are torn, have holes in them, or have been poorly sewn together. All of their old shoes were ripped up or non-existent. Where is the justice?
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After lunch we gathered together for presentation time. While we were singing I was filled with smiles and joy watching them respond to us. When they sung I was touched. I saw how precious they were singing. At that moment I wanted to improve my guitar skills, singing skills, so I could come back and teach/learn from these children how to worship God. At that moment I could see myself doing that all my life. After the kids formed a big circle around our small circle of team members and sang a song of blessing to us. They waved their hands towards us as they sang. It broke my heart. I have no words to describe how much I cherish that. I am overwhelmed just thinking about it and my eyes still sting with tears. Then we had the kids who wanted to accept Christ come to the middle of our small circle, put our hands on them, and prayed over them. It was so powerful and I felt such a burden for them. I can never cry enough over these souls.
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