Fred Has Learned that Nothing is Impossible With God!

We first met Fred and his two younger brothers over ten years ago. Their mother had abandoned them and their father, who suffered from mental disabilities, was rarely around. These boys lived in the worst home in the slums, a waterlogged structure that looked like a cave at the edge of the swamp. When it was flooded, they stayed with the nearby witch doctor. Fred had the added challenge of being deaf and dumb since birth.

Fred remembers, “I couldn’t relate to anyone. Many times I was treated more like a pet and less like a human. I was just there for people to look at, and it made me feel like an outcast. I had no friends except my brothers and felt mostly alone.”

Fred continues, “I thought this was how life was suppose to be. It hurt so much, but I didn’t know life could be any other way. I put on the same clothes every day and washed once in a while. I was always hungry but thought it was normal. It was like suffering was part of life, but one thing I remember . . . I envied to be like other children around me who could speak and hear, and had friends.

“It was around 2009 when I was with my brothers on the streets. We were entertaining a group of taxi drivers by dancing for them to get some tip money to buy food. People on the EWT staff saw us and came to our home. After that, we were enrolled in the Child Sponsorship Program. Since then, my brothers and I have received so many things . . . not just food and an education but a future.

“Both of my parents have now died, but I feel like I have a family who takes me as their own son by loving me, caring for me, counseling me, and remembering me in their prayers. I now have a lot of courage, joy, and confidence. My life has so drastically changed that I can’t believe I am the same boy. It has shown me there is nothing impossible with God. Who would have ever thought that I could be educated and now trained to be a skilled furniture maker!

“All I can say is that my sponsors are Godsent. Through them, I know that God exists and cares for the neglected and destitute. I know this because I have experienced His love through them. I’d like to tell them, ‘Thank you for picking me from where I was very many years ago, because nobody would wish to be there. May God bless you always.’”

We praise God for what He has done in the life of Fred, and in all our children’s lives. And we thank all our sponsors for being the love of Jesus, a love that has helped our children overcome odds that once seemed impossible!