They are singing your name! Would you like to know that in Kenya today a child might be singing your name? Prisca told me today that “when a child hears they have a sponsor—a mother or father, or both—they break forth in joyful song. They sing your name over and over with great excitement and happiness!”Can’t you just visualize their happy faces and sweet little voices? They are singing about love and hope and a chance to live. Prisca continues, “These children had no homes, no place to go, now they have a home, they have enough to eat and a bed, and can go to school. All of their school fees are paid! They are now like other children. May the Lord bless all the sponsors and donors for the work you are doing. Through you we are experiencing God’s love in our hearts.”Prisca, along with her husband Moses, takes care of all one hundred three children at Glory Center. I marvel at their strength, both physical and spiritual.  Being parents to that many children is out of my realm of comprehension. They do a wonderful job and the children think of them as their parents. She told me that everyone is fine there and that they all got their malaria and measles vaccinations. They appreciated the funding because many people die from these diseases every year. If you remember, they had an outbreak earlier. She asks for prayer for the students and teachers as another school term begins.Their garden is producing carrots, tomatoes and greens to make sukuma wiki [see recipe lower right] to eat with ugali.  This is a favorite of the kids. They are so happy to have fresh vegetables from their own garden and are growing pineapples and bananas, too.Another cause for celebration is the funding is ready now to purchase the land for the orphanage! The donation came to us in stocks and it took awhile for us to process it, but now it is available and the land is being purchased. I’m sure there will be lots of excitement when this happens! We all know that once we have the land there will come a way to build the orphanage. I never doubt that God will move in the hearts of His people. I’ve witnessed this over and over again. I hope we can furnish them with the resources to have their own well very soon. Having to haul water has been labor-intensive and a big expense, so it will be wonderful for them when they can have their own source of water.The well at Hope Center really came in handy through this last drought. I don’t know what they would have done without it!  A big thank-you and a hearty welcome to our new sponsors; it is exciting to have you open your hearts to the siblings, as so many of you are doing. I’m sure it’s comforting to them to all be sponsored by the same family.

I’m sure the children who have no family there are especially happy to have “parents” in other parts of the world, so they are no longer all alone. Every time we get a new sponsor now I will visualize a little child singing! Thirty-two out of the last group of fifty-six children have been sponsored, so we’re on the homestretch, with parents strung from coast to coast.

Hearth to Hearth Ministries' websites

Other Hearth to Hearth Ministries' Orphanages

Good Samaritan Lwanda Children's Home Orphanage

Maranatha Children's Home Orphanage

Hope for Children Center Orphanage

Bridge of Hope Center Orphanage