Southside Church let me back on stage again this morning.  What a privilege that God gets to share about the kiddos near to His heart…through me.  It was a great morning, and God began working on the hearts of our church members long before I walked onstage.  One college student felt led to sponsor a child long before arriving at Southside this morning.  He just wasn’t sure from where.  God spoke to him this morning and laid it on his heart that the child he’s been praying for and budgeting for is in Adacar.

Another woman came up to us after the service and said that everything went wrong trying to get her family to church this morning.  She tried and tried, and everyone had conflicts and it just wasn’t happening.  She felt like she was supposed to come anyway and got in the car.  Well, she arrived a little late and missed the music, her favorite part.  She didn’t know why she was there.

She’d been trying to quit smoking off and on and had decided that she was going to quit again next Monday.  Today, listening to the stories of the children in Adacar, she was so convicted that she was spending money to kill herself while these kids were dying from preventable diseases and hunger.  She told us that she knew she’d quit for good this time, and that she had the motivation.  She was going to take her cigarette money and sponsor a child with it.  Amazing!

I love stories like these, when I can almost physically watch God reach down and share His heart with someone.  This morning was great.  We still need more sponsors, and it’s not too late to contribute to the Adacar Medical Fund.  Also, if you just want to check out the new page that HopeChest put together for us, see new videos of Adacar, including a tour of the new CarePoint buildings, visit www.hopechest.org/adacar.

Tags: Africa, Children's HopeChest, Extreme Poverty, Orphan, Southside Church, Sponsorship, Uganda