I'm a grandmother!!

We recently took my son's youth group to Cypress Gardents to see Need to Breathe and Building 429. It was a fun, rather hot, day. And true to Florida, just when the concert was ready to begin, the rain began too. After a short delay, the concert began. It is truly a delight and joy to see this group of kids...hopefully I can download some pictures of them...praising the Lord, on fire for Jesus. But then the most amazing thing happened...I became a grandmother!!! How did this happen? Well, it seems the group, Building 429 is passionate about sharing their hope of stomping out world hunger by asking their audience to sponsor children through World Vision for $30 a month. They give them a free CD and a free T-shirt. They told of their experience, first hand, of going to these countries and seeing what $30 a month can do. They told of a man who gets the money to plant pineapple fields and feed his family and send his children to school. Slowly, hands in the audience went up and people began to sponsor children. It was during this time, that I noticed my son begin to bow his head and pray. After some time with the Lord, he turned to his father and I and asked us if he could sponsor a child. "I am working now. I can pay for it", he told us. I just need to borrow the money now. Lump in throat!! His father opened up his wallet and handed him the money. My son's hand went up and the monitor came and handed him a group of cards with children' faces on it. He went through them and picked a child by the name of Alpesh from India. He is 8 years old. The monitor told him that he could now go get his free CD and his free T-shirt. My son told him no, that's not why he did it. Double lump in the throat!!

We have now received our packet on Alphesh. We know a little bit more about India. We are getting a packet together for him, although we are limited in what we can send to him. We are not limited in our prayers for him, however!! And we pray for him often. It amazes me how we have his picture on our refrigerator and we talk about him all the time. We love this little guy like he is one of our own! "Little Alpesh, this...Little Alpesh, that"

It reminded me of how God adopts us into His kingdom. What an awesome God we serve and how He showed us that kind of love through Alpesh.

Matthew 25:40 "And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you di it to Me"