"FOOD,.... Mosquito Nets,.... Sweaters for when it gets cold......" said Josephine, tentatively. Her eyes betrayed her concerns for the 20 children sleep in the dwelling with no windows.
FOOD.....Right now, Josephine had only enough to last through lunch the next day. She calculates carefully, and squeezes the Kenyan schillings as far as possible. Her husband, Pastor Omondi joyfully walks several kms to the store and markets nearly every day, if God has provided, to pay first a little on the accumulated debt to kindly shopkeepers on his credit account and then to purchase the special flour, or rice, or beans, perhaps cabbage, to sustain everyone another day.
They have a few hens, and have offers to buy some goats.... Water is stored in big plastic containers on the ground there is no well. Electricity is wired to them from a neighbor whom they pay about $12 per month.
"Did you have a large offering from your services yesterday," I inquired?
"Well, Athena, in Kenya, the people who come to the services are very poor, and often they expect the Pastor to help them."
To be honest the orphans of the Breath of Heaven children home look skinnier than others in Watamu.
Why not give a recurrent gift of $12 every month? Then once a month, the children will sit down to eat three times that day, and give thanks to God remember you that day. What day will you choose? The first Sunday? The last Saturday? The 24th of every month?
Imagine how happy you will feel on the appointed day as you say grace over your own meals!
God truly loves a cheerful giver!
Athena Marler Creamer
USA Director of Fundraising
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