I seriously LOVE working with people that have a heart for children! The staff at Go MAD's Firm Foundation Children Center may be little but it is MIGHTY! Every time we have a family come in with special needs they jump into gear and pull out whatever is needed, including their own food for lunch, clothes, etc. So it was not surprising to me when one of our employees, Tania, brought a young neighbor to the clinic for treatment because his mother is 8 months pregnant and was sick in bed.
His name is Nelson. He is Haitian and he suffers from albinism. He is the sweetest kid you will ever meet. Tania brought him in for help because he has a bad rash for over a month. We need to get Nelson to a dermatologist in a nearby town so we paid his mom a visit today to see how we could help. I am so grateful that we did.
When we arrived at an old run down abandoned resort, climbed a make shift ladder......
and then to the roof of the building this is what we found.
This is where Nelson sleeps.
I will give you a closer look.....
This is where his mother makes his meals....
This is Nelson's good buddy.
The really cool thing is God knew Nelson needed more buddies. He actually orchestrated a pastor in a small town of LeRoy, Il to have a enormous heart for missions AND children. This amazing pastor had given my children both $100 and told them to find a mission of their own in the Dominican Republic. So both Mario and Maddie have been praying about how they can make their $100 grow to make a HUGE impact. But what God showed us today was. It doesn't have to be HUGE to many. Sometimes being HUGE to one at a time is enough.
We made a special delivery to a special child of God....he was so cute...he just kept scratching his head in disbelief!
Thank you God for the heart of Pastor Steve Ward. Thank you for the heart of my son Mario. Thank you for allowing us to delivery Nelson a soft comfortable place to sleep tonight.
1 Sam. 2:8 He lifts the poor from the dust-- Yes, from a pile of ashes-- And treats them as princes sitting in the seats of honor. For all the earth is the Lord's And he has set the world in order.
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