"Life Changing?" "So, you were there for 2 weeks. Needs persist. Now what?"

"Life Changing?"  "So you were there for 2 weeks. Needs persist. 
 EVERYWHERE. Including here. So, Now what?"

                                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coHKdhAZ9hU
                          "I don't want to gain the whole world and lose my soul", by Toby Mac.

1. Life Changing?
- Not a day goes by that I do not think of the kids - Emmanuel, Isaiah, Sicly, Helen, etc.
  I met a young woman from Crossway Church in Germantown who went to the South Sudan a year ago.  She said it is still true for her.
- I look at my life, at my home, at what we have here, what is important to me and to my world, differently.
- I felt purposeful in my life there.
- I miss them terribly.
- I felt alive.  I mean I was outside of my comfort zone - diet, amenities, sleeping, teaching, heat, illnesses, my size and color, doing inservice training, in home cells - and I was given the strength to be purposeful.  I was alive.
- I have a new perspective.  It is exciting.

                                              A man who attended one of the "home cell" lessons.
2.  What about the needs here?
I get a lot of that, and I understand it. I try to give and help with needs here, as I can, never enough but I know those needs are here.
It does not mean there are not needs, over  there and everywhere.  I feel compelled, I feel called, to help there also.
I think there are needs all over the world, including right in our back yard, as well as literally halfway around the world.  I try to do what I can, and be open to what God would have me do.

Kids playing a game dug into the ground at recess.  In Kampuala, Uganda, we bought a wooden version for our home.

3.  So, now what, for us. 
- Have I mentioned I would love to go back?
- We pray.  Haiti, South Sudan, Milwaukee, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, etc. - all need our prayers.
- Also, be the hands and feet of Jesus.  Go, help. Where we can.
- Give what we can, as we are called.
- Pray.

                              Kids playing futbol at recess.  I got to ref a game!  They always laugh at me.

www.hrtn.org

(Angelo is one of the kids on the front page, far right!)

You can learn about Pastor Dennis and Mama Lilly, who founded the orphanage.  You can learn about how Harvesters' has grown over 10 years, including starting a 2nd orphanage in Terekeka.  You can learn how to get involved if you are so inclined.  You can watch the growth.

                               Kids gather in an assembly before the beginning of each school day.

                  Thank you for allowing me to share.  (Doing this blog has kept me there, in a way.)