About two years ago I felt challenged to read through the New Testament daily from Matthew to Revelation without stopping. I had heard the majority of the stories over the years but hadn’t really read them back to back. During this process God started revealing to me a love for three people groups: the poor, orphans and widows. He also showed me how it was my calling as a Christian to care for these groups. I felt like I helped two of them, poor and widows. I would feed the homeless on Thursday nights and minister to widows throughout the year with an organization I was involved in. However, I realized very quickly that I did little to nothing for the orphan, probably the most vulnerable group of all of these. I then began praying for this group. During this time God really started to grow in my heart a passion for this group of people. He also started to grown an awareness through me in a college age Bible Fellowship class I taught. At the beginning of some of my lessons I would ask the girls in my class “If you knew God was behind you 100% and could do anything what would you do?” I thought this question would be for their benefit and help them to look beyond their own power and rely on God but little did I know it would also be used by God for my benefit. Through the answers to this question I started to ask myself what my own personal answer would be. The reply I quickly felt was something to do with orphans. I began to personally answer this question every week with “I’m not sure exactly what but something to do with orphans and raising awareness for them”. I also realized a couple of weeks into this question that several of the girls in my class also had a passion for reaching young children. At a Tree (college –age) service a few weeks later I approached a director of score and asked him if it would be possible to setup a mission trip specifically for the girls in my class. He said yes, would we be willing to go to an orphanage in the Dominican as he had just spoken with several of the orphanage directors and they were in great need of people to just love on the children.
I knew immediately that God had a plan. This trip is a result of the prayers of over 20 girls. However, those prayers weren’t “God send us to the Dominican” those prayers were “God if you could have us do anything with you behind us 100%, what would it be?” I know that God has great plans for me and for the girls in this class. I hope that you would also be willing to open your heart and ask God that same question “If He would have you do anything, what would it be”? Thank you so much for visiting our blog and I hope through reading these posts you learn more about us, orphans, the Dominican, and the God who has tied it all together. I also hope that God reveals to you the reason we are doing everything. Not to point to ourselves or any organization but to point to Him. We hope that we are able to be a living example of Matthew 16:24-25 "Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it." That is our goal with this trip and daily, to lose our life for His life!
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