The children have moved in to their new home!

4th December, 2009 - Posted by Camille Cotton -

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The move-in day was wonderful, chaotic, and emotional all at the same time. We had our Sunday service at the Village, ate lunch, and then proceeded to start loading up the truck, as children began carrying smaller loads of their personal belongings by hand or by wheelbarrow. By 5PM we had moved almost everything into the new home and we had a wonderful ceremony in which we broke bread together and blessed the home with our prayers. The most powerful and poignant prayers were the ones of the children who, as they prayed, did not pray for themselves, but began praying for those less fortunate than themselves who did not have a home or food. Some of the children began praying for the children of Kambi Teso who were hungry and who lived in inadequate mud shelters, perhaps some of imga00211

them mindful of the fact that they themselves, or the child standing next to them came from the slums of Kambi Teso. I don’t cry very often but I did tear up as I began to hear such selfless prayers from seven- and six-year-old children. I probably was praying for a bicycle when I was seven, and most seven-year-old children in the west today are praying for a new Nintendo Play Station, but not the children at the Open Arms Village. I think they are being raised with beautiful lovely hearts for God and for the people around them.

Blessings,

Matt Tallman