Children's Shelter

Today was my final day as the Education Assistant at the Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter. I cleaned out my desk and said some goodbyes. I am of a melancholy mind tonight. Although I know I am supposed to be in nursing school and leaving the shelter, it is incredibly difficult to close that chapter of my life. I have served there for almost nine years. It has been my mission field. By the grace of God I have touched thousands of children's lives. It has been a privilege.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Never throw anyone away --Audrey Hepburn.

Update on The NOAH Project

Last week The NOAH Project received a grant for food for the villages in Malawi around the project, where they have already been feeding 3000 children a day. Now they will be able to feed 9000 a day for a year. They will focus the outreach on the elderly, the young and the ill.

David Nixon, NOAH Project Administrator, will be going there in August to oversee the digging of a deep well which will provide clean water for hundreds. He will meet with village chiefs and represent Jesus to the people. Please pray for wisdom, discernment and favor for him as he is brought to your remembrance.
Some of my friends see US aid to Africa as almost pointless since the circumstances rarely seem to improve for the masses. However, my view is that we must not allow the corruption, the greed, the narrow mindedness, the selfishness of some of the governments and leaders that control the aid to discourage us from touching the lives that we can reach.


"And Jesus was going about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness. And seeing the multitudes, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and downcast like sheep without a shepherd." Matthew 9:35-36


Jesus did not cease to touch the masses, even though they did not always respond appropriately and often did not recognize Who He was. He called a spade a spade, he didn't pull any punches. He was gentle, He was kind. He was PATIENT. He was compassionate, long suffering with their sins, their spiritual blindness and in the case of many, their hatefulness; and He never once sinned against them. Oh for grace to live like that always...


Learn to do good; seek justice, reprove the ruthless; defend the orphan, plead for the widow. Isaiah 1:17 (NAS)