We spent Monday at the feeding program for the street children run by ANLM. We got to play with the kids, then we joined in a church service with them before serving them a meal. We encouraged them to believe God for great things and to hold fast to Christ. It is amazing to look at those children, some of them so young, and think about our precious children in the Faith and Kanombe Home. Kids like Sprian and Michael who are at the top of their class in school and have changed so much since coming into the home. What is inside these kids who are still left on the street- I mean, what is inside them that hasn’t been given the chance yet to come out? The special giftings of God that are not able to be developed because these kids must spend all their time just trying to survive? Couple that with the fact that today we went to the Acres of Hope. We walked around the property and envisioned the many possibilities there. We prayed and declared God’s blessing over the property, the things God has placed in our hearts to do there, and the entire country of Rwanda. We pray that God would pour out his Spirit on the land- that it would overflow and affect the entire country.
Before Mike left the last time he let the people in the area know that they could grow crops on the land until we were ready to build. So it was good to see many little plots of crops already growing and ready to be harvested. Already the land is being a blessing to the people there, and we pray that it continues exponentially.
Yesterday we also had fun visiting with the Kanombe Home kids. There is one new boy there, he has only been there for two weeks and is trying to adjust to living in a home from being on the streets. Please pray for him (and also that he would be sponsored). Unfortunately the reason there is room for him is because one of the boys in the home ran away. Please pray for this boy as well.
We still do not have Mike’s suitcase or the two bins we’re missing. As of today the airlines did not know where our stuff is. We are believing for it to be found & to show up quickly!
Everyone on the team is doing well. We thank God for taking care of us, guiding us, using us, and using the country of Rwanda, and it’s people, to move in us also. We thank you for praying with us and believing in our great and mighty God who can do all things and loves all people the same! Tomorrow we will visit the Esther Home (home for young women sponsored to attend University) and then the Genocide Museum. Thursday we will return to the feeding program. May God be glorified in all we do!
Be Blessed,
Lisa
