As Dw and Emmy leave with the team this week-end I was able to have most of today off from responsibility.  I went and sat with an ice tea at a local coffee shop reading my Bible.

I was pondering a dream I had last night {and no, I don’t understand yet what it meant}…but anyway, I was reading my Bible and writing verses on a piece of paper.

After I was there for an hour or so a young man approached me.  He commented on how intently I was studying.  I remarked that it was my relationship with Christ and His Holy word that kept me afloat and how I didn’t know how I would have done my life without my relationship with Christ.

We got to talking and he told me of a situation he and his young wife are in and how they need some direction.  I asked if I could pray for the situation with him right then.  He readily agreed to it.  We bowed our heads as I prayed.

As he and I were talking, it turns out that he and his wife spent a few years living in Ch*na and she volunteered at an orphanage there.  I asked what city it was in and would you believe it was the same city that our Jubilee was in?   I could not believe it!  I am going to email her pictures of our Jubilee while at the orphanage….and there is a very real likelihood that she crossed paths with our precious girl, once upon a time!

My eyes welled with tears as this young man and I talked about those that the Lord has placed around this globe to be His hands and feet wherever we are.   Of course the thing is that each of us have to decide to be His hands and feet!  His wife had gone in at least two times a week {for years} to this giant government orphanage to serve those behind the closed doors.

I continue to well with tears as I type now, knowing that there is a likelihood that she even ministered to our sweet baby girl.  Can you imagine?  No doubt, this young woman could have chose to do something else with her ‘free time’, but there she was emptying herself to love on the special need orphans there.

It reminded me that there are people all over the world at this moment, many without anyone knowing, serving the hurting, ministering to the fatherless, providing for the widow, caring for the homeless….and I urge you to join me in praying for strength, hope, protection, determination, peace, courage and perseverance for their hearts.  

And praying also that we, too, would be His hands and feet wherever we are at this moment.  Because each personal touch matters.  Because we are not where we are by accident, whether we be in Poland, the Netherlands, Germany, Kor*a, Qat*r, Ch*na, Uganda, Ethiopia, Australia, the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Afgh*nistan, Ir*n, Ir*q, Ecuador, Mexico, or anywhere else!

Because if we aren’t His hands and feet to this world where we are, who will be?

And on a completely different note:

You guys have been amazing!  Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for your generous gifts.  We’re just about there and we will be able to get it all done – the boys will get their court, Praise and her children will get clean water and the Pastor’s will be ministered to.  He is faithful and He uses ordinary people {like you and me} to accomplish extraordinary things!  You guys rock!

May God bless each of you exponentially for your generous gifts!!  We love you dearly!