Carmen & Eunice

_
And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. (Matt 18:5)

Yesterday, I procrastinated no longer.

This was something the Lord has placed upon my heart since the earlier part of the year. I had promised the Lord that I would do it this year. But shame on me that for months, I just sat on it. Not that I am unwilling, but I simply allowed the business of life to get the better of me.

In other words, I kept God on hold for months.

The sermons over the last few weeks on financial freedom-giving to the poor and on the importance of obeying God's laws in our lives were, I believe, gentle reminders from God for me to fulfill what I agreed to do. (He could have zapped me....but thankfully, He is always gracious and merciful).

So I determined to get it done yesterday. I adopted my 2nd child under Compassion Canada (http://www.compassion.ca/), a Christian organisation dedicated to eliminating the root causes of poverty for children around the globe. For more than 50 years, Compassion’s ministry has successfully released children from spiritual, physical, economic and social poverty in Jesus’ name.

As I did with my first sponsored child (Carmen from the Dominican Republic) under the program, I opted not to choose the child I would sponsor. I left it to God to lead me through the organisation to the child most in need of aid.

And so God guided me through Compassion Canada ...to Eunice from Kenya!

Eunice Ayuma from Kenya

Carmen Adriana Cedano Zorrilla
from the Dominican Republic

Don't get me wrong...I am not here to boast about my "generosity".

To be truthful, in view of how blessed we are here in Singapore, the money that I am giving each month for the 2 young children is really nothing to shout about. I am simply obeying God by starting to do what I should be doing in the first place..... instead, I genuinely feel privileged that I can be a blessing to young children from different corners of the world; not to mention that these small acts of kindness to children always please the heart of God.

So do pray for me, that even though I may never get to meet these 2 special children, God will use me to bless their lives. And that I will be faithful in writing to them to encourage them, as well as to regularly pray for them.


Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. (James 1:27)
_