The following is an excerpt for A Perfect Injustice's September newsletter. May it encourage us to serve those in need and "make God happy!"
Each
month, API host a mens night and women's night. While the women staff enjoy fellowship, movies, yummy food
and nail painting, the men staff and all our boys do “manly things.” While this
includes cooking goats, building fires and playing soccer - it also means time
in the word and words of encouragement. While mens night has always been a
special time in the month for our boys, the past few months a new “manly thing”
has been added to the tradition: community service. Our boys live in a nice
home with good food and loving family, but the sad fact is they live in the
middle of a impoverished village. A village not only where people are suffering
physically or materially, but also in the way that they do not have a relationship
with the Lord. Our staff and our boys are faithful to serve these people. While
serving the community happens all through the month, each mens night all the
boys go together to serve some in their village. This month they went to the
home of two widows. These two women live together and attempt to help one
another survive, as they have no family around them. They live in a little mud
hut with no covered place outside to go to the bathroom or bathe. Our boys and
staff decided to fix that. The boys, completely willing and with joy built
these women a shelter outside her home to bathe. They also built her a drying
rack for her dishes. For the boys with our a job in these project, they patched
up her mud hut while some sat and fellowshiped with two widows. In the middle
of it all, one of our boys, Matia, looked up with a big smile on his face and
said, “I think God is happy with us.” We
agree with Matia. God is happy with them all as they are understanding and
partaking in the real kind of “manly things.” They are becoming men of God who
are serving Him faithfully and serving their community in a way that is showing
and teaching the love and hope of Christ.
Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.
Psalm 68:5
xoxo,
Jordan
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