The last couple Thursdays my team has been visiting a government orphanage called IHNFA.
Some of the girls Cassie, from Zion’s Gate Ministry, works with go there and lead a Bible study with the teenage girls who live there.
Cassie was telling us how this orphanage is a place where mothers just drop their babies off or leave their kids outside the gate… Most of the kids here have parents. They just don’t want them.
This orphanage takes new born babies, children and teens. Especially kids with special needs.
Many families who have children with special needs believe they have been cursed and well, can’t get rid of them fast enough. The fortunate special needs kids have ended up here, at IHNFA.
“And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me.” Matthew 18:5
Hearing this my heart sank and I immidiately was asking where these kids were…
I have worked with kids with special needs before. They have a special place in my heart.
These past couple Thursdays my team has been blessed with the opportunity to hang out with them. I can’t put into words how my heart was broken seeing them and how blessed I was to be able to play with them.
The two days I got to spend with these kids was amazing but I aslo left with a heaviness…
I would cry out to God for healing over these boys… but somehow I knew that was not God’s plan. I began to pray for more peace to flood their home. For God to hold them and that they would know what a loving touch was. I prayed for more joy in these boys and more energy and stength for the staff whom have devoted their lives to these boys. I prayed that these boys would know and experience God as their father.
I left both days broken hearted… knowing in the big picture the lives of those boys wouldn’t be that different. They would still be motherless and still have disabilities.
The only thing I left them with was a piece of my heart and my prayers.
“Be joyful always, pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances,
for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
I will always remember these boys. I cry tears for them… I hurt and pray for them.
This story doesn’t really have a happy ending.
I have talked to God a lot about these boys. Questions and long conversations. Not many real answers but I did get this.
Those boys ended up at this orphanage because their families thought they were a curse… God showed me what a blessing and joy they are.
I am just trusting God to love on they and give them peace, joy and endless blessings.
“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. ” Mark 10:14
