We have had many teams of Americans here lately working to help build our new orphanage village, the Village of Hope. A few blogs ago, we showed you what the buildings looked like and we are working on finishing the first 4 buildings. To go along with an orphanage village for 240 kids, is a kitchen. This kitchen was the project this past week.
Let us tell you a bit about this kitchen. This is not just any kitchen, this is Maggie's kitchen. You may remember Maggie our orphan child that passed away earlier this year. Maggie had a very hard life but she had hopes and dreams just like everyone else. Maggie wanted to be a cook when she grew up. So in honor of our beautiful Maggie, the kitchen for the Village of Hope will be named Maggie's kitchen.
The main project this week for the kitchen was pouring the roof. 400 bags of cement, 2500 square feet, and 95 people! It was amazing to see the chain link work in action all day long. 95 people, Haitian and North American, staff and team members, construction and medical
personnel, even kids working in harmony trying to get it all done before the sun set.
It was a beautiful sight and a wonderful gift to Maggie and all others like her, that will soon have a loving home, a safe home and a Christian home to grow up in.
Another exciting thing happened. We have a nutrition program at our mission that feeds over 9500 meals per day. One of those recipients of food, is an orphanage close by. We visit this orphanage regularly as I check on the kids medical needs and Laurens attend to other needs they may have. Recently they had a new baby show up. He was abandoned by his mother at someones house in the local village. People noticed this baby with no one to care for him and the orphanage took him in. I happened to go there that day, with a small medical team. We checked him out and noticed he was quite malnourished but OK. After providing him with what he needed and setting the orphanage up with formula and a re-hydration program for him, the director asked me if I would name him.
This was the first time I have been asked to name a baby and I was very excited. Many thoughts bounced through my head and then God told me what to do. I told her we would name him Mark after the M.D. that was there doing his first check-up. Mark was pleased but asked if we could name him after his son Luke. I thought it was a great idea as we have a nephew Luke. Baby Luc (Creole spelling) it was!
Today we were back there and baby Luc was doing much better, alert and holding his own head up etc. As Teagan our daughter held him all afternoon, I prayed for his future and hers as I watched her holding this little orphan child tenderly stroking the cheek of another little girl who had clambered onto her lap.
Praise God for saving this little boy.
1 comment:
So nice to hear about Teagan and baby Luc! The name Luke also seems fitting, since Gospel writer Luke is said to have been a doctor, like Mark the MD.
Great job on the roof! The village must really be taking shape, and it must be rewarding seeing it coming to life and having so much to do with it.
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