Bethel Children's Home

On Tuesday evening, we visited Bethel Children's Home. We were greeted by Pastor Sunny and his wife. Behind a curtain, we heard tiny little whispers of excitement! They seated us right inside and then all of the girls came out. They then commenced to sing for us many songs and some even with dances! We were overjoyed to see the joy on their faces. We had been given some background on the children that we would meet in these homes earlier in the week. These children are not orphans, but rather in most cases they are children with only one parent and the parent could not provide for them.

They definitely sang a joyful noise to the Lord. After they performed, Michael and I were flogged! :-) I don't say that because we were bothered by it. On the contrary, it was humbling and just mind blowing to see how much they wanted to talk to us, tell us their names, and touch my face! The girls showed us their rooms. I probably had about 8 or more girls grabbing my arm leading me to their room. It was awesome! They each told us their names and shook both of our hands. Then they would point to their chest and say, "My name" and they would want you to remember their names. Unfortunately it was impossible to remember. Their precious little faces would sigh and then kindly tell us their names again! It was so funny! Then after they would talk to us, they each wanted to touch my face. If you think about how on T.V. the aunt always pinches your cheeks, yes, it was something like that! It brings a smile to my heart just to even write those words.

Finally we were ushered on into have dinner. We,

still days later, are completely humbled by our dinner that night. Sunny and his wife served us butter chicken (the best butter chicken I have had here) and chicken fried rice (also the best I've had here). They did not eat with us, but rather served us. Over the course of being here more than a week, we have learned that chicken has become more expensive so most people will not have it often. To know that Pastor Sunny and his wife invited us into their home, cooked for us, served us, on top of managing on these kids + 3 kids of their own, leaves us humbly thankful!

Bethel is just one of many children's homes in Agape Royal Ministries. This one was a girls home, but we will go to another children's home tonight that is for boys. We are excited to see what fellowship tonight holds! Please pray for these girls and Pastor Sunny and his family. We are so thankful that as brothers and sisters in Christ we have sweet fellowship.