Anna in Mozambique

I went to Mozambique for two weeks at the end of July and it was just the most amazing experience of my whole life. The children out there make me feel so humbled. They have come from the worst backgrounds you can ever imagine - a 14 year old boy called Matthew was sold at the age of 5, given back to his mother, got beaten so badly by his step father that he lived on the streets and now lives at the orphanage. But he is such an amazing child - he is so full of Jesus. We went hospital visiting together and he prayed with all the children and mothers, he is so special and he is going to be a pastor when he's older.

The children out there just want to be loved. They are so used to having nothing that they don't value possessions like we do - everything they have they share. They share their clothes, any presents missionaries give them, food - everything. They just so want to be loved and for you to spend time with them and be interested in what is going on in their life, they want to feel special and they want to know that someone in this big wide world loves them.   And it's not just the children in Mozambique that need to be loved, everyone does. So just because you haven't had the opportunity to go out there it doesn't mean you can't show love to people in your everyday life.   As Heidi Baker (the women who set up the orphanage) said:

 "Stop for the one. God may not have told you to set up a children's centre

for 1000 children like he did me, but he did tell you to stop for the one.

If you love the one person in front of you then it doesn't seem so hard any

more, just stop for the one."

If you look at people and see them as Jesus it soon becomes easy to love the

person in front of you, so I challenge you to do as Heidi says and stop for

the one, it really isn't that hard.