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| Two boys from the Father's House |
’My alarm clock goes off at 4.30am – it is my turn on the early shift today. Around 5am I have to start getting the kids out of bed – peace and quiet are over now. Until 6am, fourteen children have to get ready for school and to shower with soap (boys at a certain age tend to forget)! The younger girls need help with their hair, I give out medicine, search for lost properties - breakfast. Every minute counts.....
We are on time, when a little girl explains to me, that she needs to bring sand or mud for a project at school today. Equiped with a shovel I crawl into he dark garden…Finally we have them all happily in the car – ready to go. The driver is a bit late today and after a few minute the van unexpectedly returns – two kids forgotten their school ID. No ID, no Entry!
Now it is time to wake up the smaller children – they can sleep until 6am – what a luxury! I have my second breakfast with the three nursery school kids and my third breakfast with the rest of the staff and the other kids who start school later.
At 8am we have our staff meeting. We don´t want to be just a ministry, but we want to share our lives – this is what makes it special for me. We are not only talking about the ministry but about how we feel – challenges, frustration, joyful moments and our hopes and dreams for the future. We laugh together, care for one another and pray for each other. God is there and we really feel encouraged.
After that we talk through the practical stuff and some tell us about the outreach yesterday. They met three brothers of a girl, who is living with us. Their father has been shoot a long time ago and their mother is gone insane. Another brother is in jail. The boys are all on their own and even the youngest (he is about seven) is sniffing glue. I can hardly believe how terrible the situation for the kids is – should we not at least take up the two youngest boys?
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