Over recent months, I have loved following the ministry of Make Way Partners. Most missionaries and ministries whom I support and follow send infrequent, cheerful updates--churches built, lots of people saved, tidy prayer requests. Kimberly Smith of Make Way Partners sends frequent, heart-wrenching, raw updates. I appreciate her vulnerability and her passion--it draws me into prayer.
Today she sent an update that much needed (and very costly) food for the orphans are stuck at the border--not being allowed into the country.
I felt compelled to pray with my kids about this, but it's tough--it's tough to explain orphans and starvation and corrupt government officials to a 3 and 5 year old. But we did.
- After we read our Advent reading of Luke 1:26-38, we talked about how nothing is impossible with God.
- I explained that an orphan has no mom or dad.
- We grabbed the globe and I showed them were we live and where Sudan is.
- I explained that there was a truck full of food waiting for them--food we had sent money to help buy. Here they made a personal connection: "A truck like Grandpa drives?" Grandpa drives a truck for a restaurant supply company, so, yes, it was a great connection.
- I explained that some people were stopping the truck and wouldn't let it drive to the kids and we needed to pray, because it was a problem that only God could solve--because nothing is impossible with God.
