Innocence.

How do u make sense of such a tragedy? 3 little girls I love...3 girls who are true princesses with the purest hearts and sweetest spirits...all violated, raped, and infected with a deadly incurable disease...HIV. I often think of their gifts and talents. One of them is the best dancer at our school and so young. Another one is so adorable and funny at her young age of 5 years. They are so innocent. How could something like this happen?

All I know is that God is our HEALER, our REDEEMER, and He makes all things new...He was beaten and killed and rose from the grave on the 3rd day so that we might know HIs healing redeeming power. He blood washes us and heals us from every tragedy, every wound, every trauma and violation and theft. This story is not over...and nothing can ever take the sweet spirits of these girls. The Devil loses. Love always wins...

I wrote this song inspired by these girls and their story as I myself am still processing it...

"'Come now, let us reason together,' says the Lord. 'Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.'" -Isaiah 1:18


Wrote this song today...to tell the story and to process the story of Faith, Mercy, and Ruthie...3 girls raped and infected with HIV.

The falling snow
Shakes from her white feathers
Pure winds blow
She rises with
The dawn of a new day
And her song can be heard
But somewhere in the afternoon
She screams a cry of pain
Though the snow
Has turned to red
It’ll be white again one day
Innocence
Cannot be stolen
Innocence
Is always in the heart of a child
The clear light of heaven shines
From their eyes
They are free as a bird
To fly
Three little girls
Daughters of heaven
Perfect delight
Their royalty
Cannot be taken
Though they pass through the night
Cause somewhere in the shadows
They screamed a cry of pain
Though the snow
Turned to red
It is white again today
Innocence
Cannot be stolen
Innocence
Is always in the heart of a child
The clear light of heaven shines
In their eyes
They are free as a bird to fly
Healing is in your wings
Joy comes in the morning
Healing is in your wings
Joy comes in the morning
Innocence
Cannot be stolen
Innocence
Is always in the heart of a child
The clear light of heaven shines
In their eyes
They are free as a bird to fly
Healing is in your wings

Our video and Christmas Flyer.

This video gives you a glimpse into my everyday life in Uganda. I am so humbled and honored to be a part of what God is doing as He POURS OUT His Spirit on these children. Can you believe they worship Him like this??? I am REALLY missing home tonight. Only a couple weeks til I get back...



Also here is our Christmas Drive flyer. We are trying to raise some funds to buy gifts and transport suitcases full of Christmas 4 Africa. :-)

Haiti.

On friday of this week at 2pm Haitian time a hurricane is due to hit haiti that the UN has said will destroy every developed town on the island. Let's pray. "Peace be still in Jesus name." amen.

To read a few stories from my friend's mission trip to Haiti that will BREAK your heart and fill you with compassion go here.

Institutional Orphanages looks like a LARGE number of children ...bigger than a family size in a building where usually many of them sleep in the same room and have one main caretaker.

Our model looks like bringing 10-12 children into a HOUSE where there is a mother figure and a father figure and probably other caretakers as well like an auntie or a grandma etc. It is a FAMILY.

God has asked me to bring His lost children HOME. We currently have 12 children in our home/family. 10 of them were brought in as former orphans and 2 of them are biological. One of them is 16 and doesn't have a father but is the son of our neighboring pastor who has come to bless our home by helping us. These kids are NOT orphans anymore. They are now a part of a family and understand themselves to be sons and daughter, princes and princesses of the most High God!!!! Their Father is the King of Kings. They don't like being called orphans and once when I had a sign up that said something about orphans they asked me to remove it from our home because that is not who they are! Holla. :)

Orphanages while providing many basic needs and shelter is just not what we are into. We are into homes and families because that's what God has called us to.

Please if anyone is sharing about our ministry do not call it an orphanage. We don't have an orphanage and we are not an orphanage. We are just people loving children by bringing them into families. We also educate many children in our community who often live with extended family like aunties and grandmas or even friends because their parents have died...so we offer them free school and meals and love and Jesus. We teach them as well that they are royal sons and daughters of the most high God once they come to know Jesus who makes a way for them to come to know their Father, the King of Kings. :-)

If you want to communicate that we are in orphan care, that's good. Just say she/they have an orphan care ministry that places children into families. Anyone heard of the ministry watoto? We are replicating this awesome model but adding fathers. :-)

Okay that's about all I want to say. :) Thanks everyone for all of your love and support and partnership. This is a touchy area for me because...I was once fatherless as well. Though I have been adopted by my Heavenly Father. I would never want to be part of an orphanage or called an orphan though. That's not who I am. That's not who these kids are either. It's what happened to them.

I am blessed and honored and humbled to love, serve, and empower the TRUE ROYALTY of the kingdom of God in these children.

God bless and keep you.

<3 Rebecca