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Your Perspective  Password to my Heart“HueHue 01-08” was the password for my computer at work. Traveling to a Spanish speaking country and doing mission work as the hands and feet of Christ was a life long dream of mine. But this password has so much more meaning now that I’ve returned.  Looking into our FutureImagine getting on a plane in Dallas/Fort Worth headed to Frankfurt, Germany to meet 20 individuals you've never met and never laid eyes on, to spend 10 days– and I mean all day – in 25 degree weather in a country whose language you do not know and whose culture cannot be more different. Welcome to Russia.  Sunshine in RussiaThey say Russia only gets 40 days of sunshine a year. I think they’re wrong.  Loaves and Fishes?There are so many memories that come to my mind as I think about our time in Kenya. I remember the little school which was built on the former city dump where between 300,000 to 500,000 people live.  The Rainy SeasonIsaiah left the game to sit along the wall of the auditorium. With alarming speed he had moved from joyful to sullen and unresponsive.  Serving orphans is nothing like ‘Annie’My daily life is too easy. I live in a nice little neighborhood, in a nice little community. I drive a nice little car and wear nice little clothes. Everything is so nice and easy that I often forget about the world outside of my nice little life. Even scarier is the fact that I can forget where all of my blessings come from.  Learning to LoveAll morning my team was having difficulties finding shoes for every child; it didn’t seem as if there were enough sizes for everyone.  “A Child of God. A Child of Ours. A Child Named Winnie”It was an ordinary day on a Shoes for Orphan Souls trip in Kenya. That is what I thought anyway. What happened that day would change my vision, my heart and my life.  "Have you found me a Momma and Poppa?"This is a question that I have been asked many times from children who anxiously wait to be adopted. It is a question that never leaves my mind every day as I work. It is a burden that I bear and a reminder that there is no time to rest.  FelixAs the Buckner mission group walked into the church at the Baptist Children’s Center in Nairobi, Kenya, one boy caught my eye. 
What a Missionary Looks Like Just to introduce myself, I am a 22 year old male, currently enrolled in school at Baylor University and working full time in Waxahachie, Texas. This summer, I was called to go to Busia, Kenya and teach Vacation Bible School to orphans.  The Best Birthday GiftIn the fall of 2003, as I anticipated my upcoming 50th birthday, my husband asked me what I would like to do to celebrate. I knew that I did not want a party or a cruise or a vacation or any trinket. All of those seemed too inconsequential, too temporal, and too material for the occasion of having lived a half century. I wanted to do something that mattered. So I told Vic that I would pray about it and get back to him.  Kenya: A Trip Back in TimeI’ve always wanted to go to Africa. I’ve prayed many prayers asking God to help me find a way to visit the mother land. My dad always told me to be careful what you ask God for, because He’s always listening.  The Gift of LoveIt is the individual orphans you meet and fall in love with that change your life. The first time I walked into an orphanage, I knew I would never be the same. But it was more than just seeing the pitiful conditions that the children of Guatemala were living in and feeling the heaviness that weighed the place down. It was seeing the individual children personally and knowing and loving each of them that left the biggest impression on me. |
Have you ever been on a Buckner Mission trip? Volunteered with Buckner locally? Are you a foster or adoptive parent? We want to hear your stories! |
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