Beach Time!

This past Sunday, all the Feeding the Orphans members went to church at GMI orphanage. After the wonderful Gospel was presented, the kids got ready to go to the beach! They do not go very often because you have to pay to go to the beach if you’re over a certain age, so the kids were jumping up and down excited. Thinking about it, these children spend every single day inside the orphanage grounds. There is a concrete “fence” around the property with barbed wire and rusty blades embedded in the top for security purposes. In the front is a playground of sorts with a large concrete pad where they can play football (soccer) or Ampe (a Ghanaian jumping game). But for the most part, the kids never go outside this place. Taking over 50 to the beach is not an easy task anyways, but couple that with only having a Toyota Sequoia, it becomes an exciting challenge to see how many giggling little kids you can fit in one trip. At the beach, the kids wasted no time getting to the water. Little ones played in the sand, burying each other and making sand elephants, while the older ones flung themselves to the waves. It was a wonderful freedom for them, and a wonderful blessing from God to enjoy the day with them. By God’s sovereignty we had a whole rubbermade tote full of popcorn made by Mrs. Beebe to hand out to the children. All the kids loved it and came back for 5th and 6th servings. Some other younger kids on the beach wanted some when they saw all the other kids with it. One of the boys looked in very rough shape- sores on his leg and face, yellowed eyes and skin. Come to find out, he had been abandoned at the beach 3-4 months ago by his parents who had gone to another city. Three to four months, living outside on the beach every night; no food provided, just forced to survive on his own. We ended up taking him and another boy to GMI, got them clothes, fed them. That night at dinner they didn’t want to eat all their food because they were afraid they wouldn’t have any the next morning. We were broken at the thought of abandoning our children, especially in that manner. What selfishness can be wrought in our fallen depraved nature. Praise God for bringing us to the beach that day to have fun freedom in the waves and uniting us to these two boys in need. We are praying for the mighty plan God has for these boys, that He would give them a new heart to hear the Gospel in their new home to be adopted into His spiritual home as well as an earthly home.