Kaelin McNew & Lindsey Moore--True Blessings

"When you walk with the Lord, You don’t get bored.
Sing Hallelujah, Amen! Yeah!"

The Gaithers were right when they wrote that song.

Recently, “Uncle Bud” was approached after Sunday School to be invited to the home of Brian and Valerie Moore. He was asked to share both supper and details of his recent trip to Ghana. He shared his stories with their children, Tylor, Kaelin and Lindsey.

The children were incredibly engaged in every detail and were intensely interested in what they could do to help children in Africa who had been sold into bondage to work long days in such dangerous conditions with very little food and the absence of love.

Before Bud left the Moore’s home, Kaelin and Lindsey asked him to leave some copies of a little handout we’d prepared about the three children rescued while Bud was in Kete Krachi, Ghana. The girls wanted to share it with some of their fifth grade classmates.

When Bud’s cell phone rang the next afternoon, a bright, excited voice greeted him, “Mr. Bud, this is Kaelin. Remember me?” (Now, Bud IS pretty old, but he hadn’t already forgotten Kaelin) He said, “Sure, what’s up?” Kailin answered, “ I went to my class at school and told them about the children in Africa and they told them they needed to give a dollar and I need some new brochures. Can you bring them?”

Wow! Just about the time you begin to wonder if people really care…

Then the phone rings again. “Bud, this is Lindsey. I need some more, too. I gave all mine away”.

Sunday, Bud took some more handouts and copies of the newsletter to church. Between services, he was at the front of the church visiting with a friend who is on the worship team when Lindsey and Kaelin walked up. Both girl's fists were full of dollar bills for their new friends in Africa! “Okay Bud”, they said, “where’s our stuff?”



Thank you Kaelin and Lindsey! You give a whole new meaning (the RIGHT kind of meaning) to “a fist full of dollars”. Thanks also to all your buddies in Neosho who care about the kids half a world away!