Our Children are on a Mission to be the Love of Jesus

Our kids are burning a trail throughout our communities doing service projects, and they are giving people hope! They are learning that they can change someone’s world even with the little they have. One of the people they have touched is an 80-year-old woman named Ghetto.

Ghetto has had a lot of struggles. When her husband died, his family took over her property, and the only thing she had left was her little home. Then last year, a storm hit her home during the night. According to Ghetto, “I almost lost my life when the wall of my house fell down and my roof blew away. I didn’t have a place to live or food, because the storm destroyed all the food I had planted. After the storm, I had to go stay with one of my daughters and her children in their small hut.” Ghetto goes on to confide, “I felt depressed, but I tried not to let them see me cry. I couldn’t bear that I had added another burden to my daughter, whose husband had already left.”

So Ghetto returned to the remains of her destroyed house and decided to sleep in her tiny grass-thatched kitchen, which was outside her house. It was leaky and sometimes smoky from cooking inside it. On the nights when it rained, she could barely sleep because she got so wet. She says,”I slept on my cow’s skin, but it was hard from being wet.”

Thankfully, our children saw Ghetto's plight and wanted to do something about it. They started by renovating her little house. They made mud bricks, built up the walls, and put on a tin roof which EWT partners in the US provided. Next they repaired her grass-thatched kitchen so that it no longer leaked. Then they fetched her a stockpile of water; provided her with plenty of food items and a mattress; prayed for her; and surrounded her with love.

When we later asked Ghetto how things had changed since the children came, she smiled and said, “My burden is not heavy anymore because I have a house with a roof that doesn't leak. Before, my smile was just a mask for my life’s problems and sadness, but now, my smile is genuine! I know that I am not alone and that God loves me and is with me. I trust God even more.”

For sure, the Lord is using our children to give people hope, and at the same time He is doing something marvelous in their own lives!