The Family is Expanding

Yes, we are growing. In the last couple of weeks we have added 4 more kids. Each one with a smile to melt your heart! Their backgrounds are sad. We have a couple who, because of the extreme poverty of the mother and her inability to feed them, care for them, or send them to school, have been declared abandoned and labelled "orphans". A couple of others were removed from a mother involved in gangs. She was severly injured in a knife fight and has not taken much interest in the feeding or fate of her kids. Thus, the court declared her an unfit mother. It is sad that there are so many cases of children left to fend for themselves. Finding food becomes the entire focus of their little lives. Often, even at the incredibly young age of 4,5,or 6, they end up as "domestic help"somewhere (i.e. virtually slaves.)

While the directors and I were meeting today, we had a call from a judge trying to place 4 brothers and sisters. Unfortunately, one was too old for us to accept. At the end of our meeting we prayed for God to provide a loving place for those 4. Saying "no," even when one feels led by the Spirit to set perameters, is very hard to do.