Esther and a Generation of Young People

"Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom 
for such a time as this?
Ester 4:14

This is Esther. She is beautiful. She is humble. She is an orphan......and God has brought her to this Kisii kingdom orphanage for such a time as this. Her mom, who was single, died from an illness. Her aged grandmother could no longer care for her, and so she was brought here to the orphanage to get help and to get care.

There are many, many children all over the world just like Esther that have no mother or father, who have lost their parents to AIDS or to some other devastating disease or circumstance. They need our help. Esther represents a generation of young people that are without mothers and fathers, that are without the love and guidance that they need to be nurtured and loved. She represents a generation of orphaned children that need to know, feel and experience the love of God, that need our prayers and our love. These children, like Esther, are a generation that God is gathering under His wings to shelter, care for, protect and raise up. HE is their Father. He has not forsaken them. He has chosen them, and is raising them up to be mighty men and women of God, to be children of the King, to know who they are IN Christ and to change the world. "Love never fails." It's God's love shown and given to them that will fuel their lives to be what He has called them to be.

Love is expressed through each one of us in varied ways. How can He express HIS love to them through YOU?  God has brought this post into your path to ask you this very question. He is challenging you/us in this New Year to be an extension of His hand and heart of LOVE. Won't you answer the call and take the challenge? Esther needs you.....Esther needs us.....Esther needs Jesus manifesting Himself through us. These CHILDREN need US. It's an hour to give of ourselves and make a difference in these children's lives, to show them that God loves them, that they are important, and that they have a future. Let's step out in faith into something NEW this year, and invest our lives in others....in the lives of these children that God deeply loves and has brought together in this hour under His wings of love in this Kisii orphanage. Pray for them. Support them through your love gifts and donations. You are blessed to be a blessing.
Please see the list of needs in the right panel that you might be able to help by a small donation.

God richly bless you and yours as you hear His heart and as you move and obey His leading.

"It's more blessed to give than to receive."
Acts 20:35

Christmas Eve Blessing

These children are full of gratitude for our love and support. We receive a blessing from these children and this Pastor and his family as my 6 yr old grandson, David, enjoyed a Christmas Eve skype visit with them over the computer. The children sang us a song with the words, "We will never be the same" and then sang another song in their native language, and then my grandson and I blessed them with the song, "We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." The children lifted up their treat of their Coca Cola bottles from their Christmas meal and waved the clothes in the air that they had been blessed with through the purchases from many of your gifts. God has a way of connecting and networking our hearts together around the world through this computer. God is doing a NEW THING.

Our New Journey

The Lord connected us to this Pastor and this orphanage in Kisii, Kenya in October 2014, using my husband and I to be a bridge of God's love into these children's lives.

By His grace God first used my spiritual blog writings connected to His Word and heart to pour into them spiritually, and then began stretching my husband and I into a new place of giving and support financially for these children to see their needs met in a more physical way. He was making us an extension of His heart and hands.  By God's grace He's used us one month to supply the orphanage with food, and then later to supply them with new mattress to replace old ones that were thorny and thin and make their sleep more comfortable.  We've been able to supply them with mosquito nets to cover their beds and blankets to keep them warm and protected from the elements as the seasons bring these changes.  My prayers through all this were that they would feel God's LOVE, His protection and provision as they grow in their understanding of their identity as children of the King, and that they would experience His presence in their dwelling and abiding in the secret place of the Most High as spoken of in Psalms 91.

The children are excited and happy for the way God is changing their lives through His love and support.  They are truly feeling and seeing His love poured out upon them through this ministry of giving as it is connected to the hand and heart of God. Through the "Go Fund Me" account that the Lord led me to set up He is using the Body of Christ to reach out with their hands and hearts to help in this ministry support as well, and for this I praise God. We ARE His Body, and He receives all the Glory!

This is indeed a calling from God to serve these children. This orphanage has been established for two years and supported by the tithes and offerings of a small congregation of believers in the Kisii church along with other "well wishers".  So as the Lord has brought us alongside to pour into their lives, I ask you to pray about this to see if the Lord would so lead you to donate and support these children and this orphanage as well in a small or large way to help get them education, food, clothing as well as other basic needs that will arise. In doing so I know you will be eternally blessed as they are provided for by your heart of giving.  You can't out give God.  He continues to give back to you in ways that money can't buy.

Also I have found in this new leg of our journey for God's Word to be true, that "Where your treasure is there your heart will be also." (Matt 6:21), for as I sent our first seed of blessing it connected me to these children in a deeper and richer way. My heart truly followed the seed and was enlarged in my love towards them. God is doing a work of LOVE in me/us in many ways, through stretching us in our giving, in enlarging our hearts, and in connecting us to His heart of "helping the weak and the fatherless." (Ps 82:3-4)

I see this as a Kingdom orphanage full of kingdom children that He is raising up and that He has asked us AND you to be a part of.  May God richly bless you as you respond to His call. (Please share with your friends and family.)

                                 "Defend the cause of the weak and the fatherless; 
                                    maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
                                                 Rescue the weak and needy; 
                                      deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
                                                                 (Ps 82:3-4)

                                  "How blessed is he who considers the helpless;
                                    the Lord will deliver him in a day of trouble.
                                                                  (Ps 41;1)

The Pastor and the 14 children. Children of the King!

          They were excited about 

        getting netting over 

                   their beds.            

"He who dwells in the secret place 

of the Most High shall abide 

under the shadow of the 

Almighty."

Psalm 91

God will use these shoes to take 

them on their path of 

righteousness with Him.

Smiles on their faces from

getting their new shoes.

Every step that the sole of their

feet shall go He has given

it to them.

Joshua 1:3

The children dancing in

worship in their Kisii church service.

Beautiful young ladies