Father to the Fatherless
I don’t know about you but I am pretty much a believer that when the Lord leads you down a long, dark valley it is for a reason and something is going to happen. When I was recently in Bluefields, Nicaragua my staff director, Willie Brown, took me down one of those long, narrow alleys where I met Dona Coco. She is an amazing woman who for the last 19 years has been caring for children who have no one else.
These children may still have parents but their parents are lost in drugs or alcohol leaving the children as orphans with no one to care for them, except Dona Coco. I discovered that it cost Dona $1 a day to feed one of her 10 children. That is a mere $10 a day to feed these little boys. Forgive me, but I just need to be blunt. These kids deserve a chance in life so if you can help Rivers of the World (ROW) to meet their needs I know the Lord will surely bless you for it. Check out our web site, www.row.org, go to the “countries” tab and click on Nicaragua to view some photos of these precious boys.
We learn in Deuteronomy 10:18 that widows and orphans have a special place in God’s heart:
“He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the alien, giving him food and clothing.”
Before we accepted Christ as our Savior, we were lost, spiritually starving and dying in our sins. If you have tasted God’s sweet grace and have been nourished by His word, then wouldn’t it make sense that you should provide physical nourishment to those in need in order for them to be open to receiving the bread of life, which is Christ? Even if you don’t give to these boys in Bluefields, I strongly encourage you to give in some way to alleviate the suffering of orphaned children in your city or in a city around the world.
