"The LRA had run over her multiple times with a vehicle, leaving her for dead." - Reflections from Uganda

Doreen was a victim of the civil war there when she was a young child and the LRA had run over her multiple times with a vehicle, leaving her for dead.

Rachel and I went to visit Doreen in the 2 room hut where she lives with her mother who takes care of her.  As a result of her ordeal with the LRA Doreen has no joints and cannot bend her arms or legs. But, she has the joy of the Lord.  She leads the choir at her church and children living nearby come to her house where she teaches them how to read, along with some science and other subjects. She is an amazing girl.

As we were visiting with her and her mother I happened to look in the corner of the room and there was a Free Wheelchair.  I got so excited and I took pictures of it and told her that we were familiar with the organization.  She has had it for a couple of years and it has changed her life and allowed her to leave her hut - something she wasn't able to do before.

It was a huge blessing to unexpectedly  see firsthand how your organization is reaching far into the world.  It was one thing to watch your video and be touched by what I saw, but it didn't compare to seeing it up close and personal.

Cathy and Doreen

Rachel and Doreen

Blessings to you,

Cathy

-Parkcrest Church.

 

 

A precious smile, a simple testimony...Distribution report from Honduras.

Thanks so much to our partner in the field for this powerful, testimony straight from Honduras.

Nestor lives in  San Francisco del Valle, Ocotepeque, is 25 years old and cannot walk because of cerebral palsy.  His mother has not been able to carry him because of his size and has kept him in bed to care for him.  Now that they have been blessed with the wheelchair he can be sat up and taken outside.

"He was a great and very populate dancer in his community..."-Distribution Report from Haiti

Thanks so much to our partner in the field for this powerful, testimony straight from Haiti

Job Mazenard, a man with plenty dreams, is living in Haiti. Specifically in Thomassique.He is 38 years old. When  I first met him he was in a restaurant where I went to eat. I saw him singing for people inside of the restaurant , he had a special voice , a voice that could transcend souls. After the show I went through him to congratulate him and started  to have with a little conversation that could help to know his story.

Before the earthquake He was a great and very populate dancer in his community. He started to sing and dance at 7 years old He inspired joy and happiness to people around him and people that used to see  him dancing to music. He could've never imagined that a day would be so tragic for him…That day, In the earthquake January twelve last year in Haiti,Where his house collapsed with him, his wife and his son. He would die as the two others, but great to the lord someone came and saved him. He was alive but unfortunately his foot was blocked under the rubble, they were obligated to cut it. No need to tell how Pain, sadness took possession of his heart and his whole body.

Life is done with good and bad part, so this is the worst  thing that could happen to Job Since then he ‘s living with his handicap, he could still sing but he couldn’t dance anymore. Moving was very difficult to him, until he received a wheelchair from Free wheelchair Mission. Even if he can’t work anymore, he still has a wheelchair to move around without any one's help.

Now he’s very happy to know that someone, a group somewhere in the world is thinking about him about people living with handicaps in Haiti.

"Later she was found again laying in the city gutter...." Distribution Report from Liberia

Thanks so much to our partner in the field for this powerful, testimony straight from Liberia

Sarah Zarwye is 13 years old. Sarah is completely helpless and can do nothing for herself. Her arms and legs are very skinny and her joints are twisted and rigid. As I stood and looked at her, I couldn't imagine how her body could even be alive. To me it looked like there was little or no tissue between the bone and the skin. Talking, for her, takes major effort but in spite of it she managed to give a big smile and say "Thank-You, God!!"

At age three she was abandoned during the war, and was first found laying in a coconut plantation in Ivory Coast. Later she was found again laying in the city gutter. A Christian lady working in a hotel saw people looking in the gutter and went to see what it was and found little Sarah (muddy and covered with fire ants.) She was then taken to the police station but was released without a home. Somehow over the course of time she came to live at Life Village Orphanage in Monrovia, Liberia where she lives with 50 other orphans.