Since coming home, I have slept a lot, thought a lot and also spent some time crying. There wasn’t much time to allow everything I was experiencing to soak in while I was in Helena. We stayed pretty busy. I was loving the children, enjoying them and sometimes getting frustrated with them. It is the children that I can’t get out of my head. I still see smiling faces, sad faces, faces soaking up learning. I still see plainly the faces of some with whom I had closer interactions. I didn’t want to leave them. I saw children with obvious talent. I met some who shared their dreams. All of this is wonderful. What makes me cry is the lack of what is needed in their homes, and community to help them develop those talents and dreams. It is hard to think of them being in need, dreams unfulfilled. I am filled with admiration for the work that is being done to give these children and this community a chance for recovery. I am thankful for the opportunity to see God at work in people. I am grateful for the opportunity to join the work and allow myself to be used in some way. I want to go back. I want to experience the children again and I want the opportunity to see the progress year to year in this community. Thank you God for these people working for you in this place of great need. Thank you also for my opportunity to be a part. Bless the ministry in Helena.
– Nancy Webb, Englewood Baptist Church
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August 12, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Jim Wood
I to have had time to reflect on the week spent with the children. All the time that I was there I wondered the same as you stated Nancy. That is what real chance do these young children have to break out of the enviorment that they find themselves in of no choosing of their own. Where is the constant roll model for them to follow? I said to the young boy that I gave my cross to that he was a very special boy and that God loved him and That I loved him. What does it mean to say that God loves you to one in the circumstances he finds himself in day after day?
The committment of Ben, Leorna and others will have an impact but it will also take a lot of effort from the community. God does and still works in the efforts of those that have a longing and committment to these children and the adults responsible for them. It was a hot week but I would not have missed it for the world.
Jim Wood, Englewood Baptist Church, Kansas City, MO