Wide is Your love and grace

      You know, when you go on a long of a mission trip you see it all…the good, the bad and the ugly. You have your ups and your downs and sometimes the downs outweigh the ups. These are the days that you need God the most. The days that you turn to Him with breaking hearts crying out for strength to finish the day. It is in these moments that you find just how faithful He is.

       I saw so much pain and sorrow in such small children that my heart was breaking over and over during our Camp Hopes. True, I saw a lot of beauty, joy and healing, but I also saw the scars from the past that these children faced and the pain that was in their eyes. I saw how abuse, neglect and sorrow had taken their toll on these precious children. Yet through the efforts of the staff and mission teams that came in, I saw God’s grace and love working in their lives until they were changed children by the end of camp.  Again, this is God’s work. God was truly at work in their lives through these hard working missionaries. For many of these children, this is all it took to bring them to the Lord.

    God’s love and grace truly is wide and does indeed extend to the ends of the earth. I have seen it happen. I have seen the hand of God reaching down from heaven to change lives, heal hearts and create eternal bonds with Him in the lives of these children. If God can sit on the throne of heaven and rule the entire earth, yet still care enough to send these missionaries to Zambia for the sake of those children, then truly He is a gracious and loving God!! Wide indeed is His love and grace!!  I know it, you know it and now, those children know it as well. Praise be to the Lord for saving 400+ children in 3 weeks!!!!
                                              "For the glory of God!'
                                          “Wide is your love and grace…
                               you never change  you never fail oh God!” 
                                     - “Unchanging” by Chris Tomlin