I shared this with one couple I met, Michelle and Chad from Indiana. She picked the word Freedom for Thursday’s adventures.
We saw children loved, cared for and children making a future. We stopped at a drop in center where the children swarmed us!!!
I fell in love with a little girl with large brown eyes. (Half of Ethiopia, by the way).
As a group we hung around for awhile longer so I wandered over to the lunch room for a peek inside since the children were singing and tapping as they waited for their food. She was sitting at the end of the table and when she looked at me a moment of recognition flickered across her face. Then when it really was time to say good-bye, I waived and she waived back with a big smile.
Then we headed over to the vocational training site of Win Souls for God http://www.wsg-street.org/wsg/
Gizachew Ayka is one of the founding members with an inspiring story of youthful passion to serve God and help the poor and needy of his community, making a profound different in the lives of hundreds just by obeying God.
The final stop of the day was a residential facility for former commercial sex workers.
Freedom isn’t just another word for nothing else to lose. When you know you are safe, you will have at least one meal a day, you have an opportunity for learning and you can be secure in the love of God for you and yours that’s free.