We Are Blessed! I just talked with George Achibra, director of Golden Village, our dream compound in Kete Krachi, Volta Region, Ghana, West Africa. Ghana is 50 years old this year...so is George...BUT TODAY IS GEORGE'S BIRTHDAY!!!
So I sang our US "Happy Birthday to You" song to him. Then together we sang the song we always sing to the children when we rescue them: "We are blessed, we are blessed. Evey day of our life we are blessed. When we get up in the morning, 'till we lay our heads to rest, we are blessed. We are blessed. We are blessed". I love that song. OUR KIDS love that song. As we sing it to them we can see the fear and dispair start to melt. They don't understand a word the first time they hear it but somehow the Spirit begins to soak the spirit of that song into their spirits.
Then George told me about how the children came to him this morning and laid their hands on his head and blessed his birthday. And WOW..Israel, who spoke no English two months ago READ PSALM 43:1-3 TO GEORGE!
(right, Isreal before rescue)
Oh, how I pray you catch just a glimpse of the joy that brings. Israel, angry, sad, bright, humble, wise 10 year old who's mom brought him from the Ada tribe near Accra to the wilderness of Volta Region to become a fisherman's slave on Lake Volta. Who now is free. Free to be a child. Free to learn. Free to play. Free to own and read the Bible.
Yea Israel. Yea George. YEA JESUS!
2 comments:
What a great post to read the night before Thanksgiving. Happy birthday to George and Ghana. I can literally hear them singing 'we are blessed'.
Amen to Traaci's comments! God bless all of you in the Touch a Life Ministries!
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