 There is a place
There’s place in Tenali, India where children from toddler to 18 years of age can go for refuge. When they’ve lost one parent, or both parents, or even when their families are unable to care for their daily needs. A place where they can have a roof over their heads and clean water to drink, a place where they’re clothed and given food to eat. A place to do homework and hangout each day. A place where they can grow in hope and say, what they desire to grow up and be one day. This place is Hope Home Orphanage.
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I recently joined Maryhaven on their outreach to local homeless camps around Columbus. Maryhaven is a treatment center that also provides crisis care and homeless outreach. Maryhaven routinely visits homeless camps, offering shelter and the first steps to recovery and self-sufficiency.  These services by Maryhaven and others are much needed as homelessness in Columbus has been on the rise despite a booming economy and low jobless rates (Columbus Dispatch, 2018). When the economy is strong and unemployment is low, it’s easy to think anyone who is homeless must not want to work or have a roof over their head. During my day with Maryhaven, I did not encounter individuals that met this description. The kind and warm souls we met wanted and needed the help that Maryhaven provides every single day.
 Everyday when we returned from in the town or city, we walked down this road to the house where we were staying. The Pastor’s family owned a home in this village, and whenever he came to the area he would say hello and talk with the nearby families. He was planting seeds.
- This woman would sometimes greet us in the mornings leaving out or when we returned later that day. One day she stopped us, and began talking with Pastor Babu. We stopped to hear the challenges she and her sons were facing. Have you ever wondered, "Does God see what's going on"? You probably have, as I have, and many others have.
I remember years ago sitting in church hearing a Minister preach about God who "sits over the circle of the earth". He said, "God sees the whole picture". This fascinated me to consider how God sees everything and works all things together for our good, as he highlighted in Romans 8. But's it's not always easy to see at first how God is working all things together for good. Fast forward some 10 years or so later, I encounter the "God Who Sees" in a more real way than I ever had before! |
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