Pentru Limba Romana accesati aici.
We headed to North Africa with a team of 10 people to give a helping hand to a Sudanese family in need of a better home and a loving heart to refugee schoolchildren.
Some team members fiercely runned around an unknown country to buy necessary supplies, sometimes with no translator at hand. Others enthusiastically taught songs, games and Bible lessons to the Sudanese children. Some skillfully repared a three-bedroom apartment where a family of 7 lives.
During these 10 days full of activities, God showed each one of us something different about the country we were serving in and about the people we were helping.
Delia said that she was “moved by the reaction of the Sudanese family when they saw their renovated apartment and said that they had never had a fridge, washing machine or new wardrobes before. I was delighted to see the kids’ joy when they realized that each one of them has a separate bed with a new mattress and will no longer have to sleep together on an old mattress placed on the bedroom floor”.
Throughout the days we spent with the refugees that attend The Good Friends Basic School I was inspired by the love that Georgiana has for these children. She told me that she has “always liked the African children and was eager to have the opportunity to play and spend quality time with them”. Georgiana quickly became friends with the 50 energetic school children that were running around in a small classroom.
While noticing that “these kids live in a different culture, where boys and girls sit separately yet they care for each other” Georgiana found ways to interact with all the children. She best showed the sacrificial love of God by doing things that were out of her comfort zone, such as teaching them songs in English and in Romanian.
During this ministry trip, amidst the financial and physical efforts, God reminded me of the promised land. I remembered that both the servants and the ones who were helped are “longing for a better country – a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them” (Hebrews 11:16).
Laura Boingeanu, RO
