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Mary
It was "video day" in Kitale today.
We toured all of the Seeds Ministries sites (orphanage, feeding station, school, high school) with our video team. In a few weeks I will be posting several videos to our website and forwarding great tools to our partnering churches to help encourage and inform their folks about their mission investment in East Africa.
I could write for a while tonight and not capture a fraction of the stories I heard and the amazing work of God I saw.
Instead, I want to tell you about 2 minutes and 51 seconds of this day filled with God-stories.
When we arrived at Seeds Children's Home (orphanage), we were greeted with the traditional songs, dances, and scripture memory quotations that has become the tradition for these great kids. It never gets old.
Today, included a testimony from a young teenage girl. Here name is Mary.
I was at the orphanage several years ago when Mary was dropped at the gate by her neighbors. She was in shock. Her father had been brutally murdered and his dismembered body was left in the front yard for her and her family to find. Her mother immediately collapsed. When she was finally roused she was not in her right mind. The children were distributed by neighbors as they could find places. Mary found herself at Seeds Children's Home.
Mary could not speak when I met her that night. She would not look up. Her chin was welded to her chest and eyes glued to her feet. She trembled like she had just been pulled from an icy stream. The staff at Seeds wrapped her in blankets, held her, and we prayed over her.
Today....she stood before her peers and me in front of video cameras and gave us a greeting and a testimony. A testimony of the new life she had found in Christ and the new home Christ had given her in Seeds Children's home. She made eye contact with me throughout her testimony. Her eyes were bright and sparkling. There was a confident smile that punctuated her precious story of rescue. And then she thanked God for loving her and thanked our American supporters for providing her physical needs that have kept her alive.
That's it!
That's why we started doing children's ministry in Kenya all those years ago. To see if maybe God could use us to rescue just one boy or girl that had no hope and had no chance.
He did!
Mary and I talked as I coached her later for her video interview. You will see it soon on our website. It was hard to believe it was the same girl.
I hope I never stop being amazed. Life is cheap in Africa. Orphans are throwaways. Starvation is the norm. Abandonment is all too common.
But, the grace and mercy of God are abundant in Africa too. And I have not found larger quantities anywhere than I see on each visit to Seeds.
There is no journal attached tonight.
Telling the other amazing stories tonight would be like ordering a second porterhouse steak. We really don't need it, do we?
Tomorrow morning we head to Mt. Elgon. The room will be full of pastors, lea
Because you send, we continue to go and give.
By grace, your brother,
Mike Curry
Founder/President Light Ministries, Inc.
Eph. 6:19-20
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