Jehovah-Jireh! It means "God is my provider." Abraham named the place where he almost sacrificed his son Jehovah-Jireh. God provided a ram caught in a thicket to take the place of Isaac on the alter of sacrifice. Jehovah-Jireh is the name of the orphanage in Port Alfred that is run by a wild-woman of faith named Molly. Orphanages are officially against the law in South Africa, though the authorities reluctantly allow Jehovah-Jireh. Schaun (with Oceans of Mercy) came across her after she had committed to God that she would never turn an orphan away. By the way, she and her husband had only one child of their own at the time. Kevin Costner heard a voice say, "If you build it they will come." Well, if you commit to take in orphans in Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape they will come. Pictures cannot do justice. (And you must not think with an American mindset about standards, codes, cleanliness, blah... blah... blah. Life and love are better than death and neglect.) Jehovah-Jireh houses anywhere between 75 - 100 children, many are infants. All this in a home roughly the size of an American three bedroom ranch with a couple of rooms crudely added! More children are left at the front gate every weekend because their parent(s) are drunk and there is no food. It is a sight that cannot be explained, only experienced, smelled and felt. After we left Roy mentioned that many of the littlest ones that we saw would probably not be there in the next year or two. If God loves AIDS babies, I guess his people (his church) should too.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
You've never seen anything like this
Jehovah-Jireh! It means "God is my provider." Abraham named the place where he almost sacrificed his son Jehovah-Jireh. God provided a ram caught in a thicket to take the place of Isaac on the alter of sacrifice. Jehovah-Jireh is the name of the orphanage in Port Alfred that is run by a wild-woman of faith named Molly. Orphanages are officially against the law in South Africa, though the authorities reluctantly allow Jehovah-Jireh. Schaun (with Oceans of Mercy) came across her after she had committed to God that she would never turn an orphan away. By the way, she and her husband had only one child of their own at the time. Kevin Costner heard a voice say, "If you build it they will come." Well, if you commit to take in orphans in Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape they will come. Pictures cannot do justice. (And you must not think with an American mindset about standards, codes, cleanliness, blah... blah... blah. Life and love are better than death and neglect.) Jehovah-Jireh houses anywhere between 75 - 100 children, many are infants. All this in a home roughly the size of an American three bedroom ranch with a couple of rooms crudely added! More children are left at the front gate every weekend because their parent(s) are drunk and there is no food. It is a sight that cannot be explained, only experienced, smelled and felt. After we left Roy mentioned that many of the littlest ones that we saw would probably not be there in the next year or two. If God loves AIDS babies, I guess his people (his church) should too.
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