CRAZYNESS. I am exhausted. And at the same time I have never been happier. I know I say that almost every post... It gets better all the time! The internet is not working very well today, so this will be a quick post to ask for prayer, prayer, prayer! I stongly believe that if God gives you 16 children to live with and 248 children to take care of (NO THAT IS NOT A TYPO...) He should also give you 35 hours in the day instead of 24. Seriously, its just not enough!

I don't know what to say. The kids just keep coming. I would say no, but God keeps giving us the money. SO I KEEP SAYING YES. It is a LOT of work. I have gone to school every day to register new kids. I have gone to town every day to buy more school supplies. I have to go to the market every day because the food we buy on the weekends to last for the weeks keeps running out as more kids keep ending up at my house. But I repeat to myself over and over and over "I am doing this for Jesus." Feeding this child for Jesus, buying these pencils for Jesus, arguing with this piki man for Jesus. Waking up at 5 and going to bed at 12 (still without everything done) for Jesus! And that keeps me so joyful. I wake up happy and I go to bed happy when I should just be exhausted.

I am feeling so relieved right this moment as all 248 children are currently at school with ALL of their supplies. I am taking a "break" to sit down at the computer and answer a million emails, organize new pictures for Gwen and Suzanne to send to sponsors (Ladies, thanking Jesus for you every minute!) and update all of you! Jane, the littlest of the 7 from next door came over, I gave her a bath and a haircut, painted her toenails, and now she is watching intently as I type!

On a different note, my children (who are learning quickly from their momma!) found some more children accross the street. Dorothy is 10, Collin is 7, Kiziito is 4 and Gladys is 3. They are all severly burnt. They have been here for several days now and no one has come looking for them. As they talk a little more each day, this is what I have gathered: Their mother died after the littlest was born and their father remarried, only to then leave them with their new stepmother. Its like Cinderella, withouth the happy ending. They are made to cook for themselves and she locks them out of the one room, tin house they live in when she leaves to go work in the morning. The littlest 2 (ages 3 and 4!) have to cook for themselves, or else not eat and both of them have recently fallen into the fire. The other two had hot water poured on them while they were sleeping (for my own anger's sake, I am going to assume it was accidental.) Anyway, I have never seen such bad burns in my life, for the first day they were here I could hardly look at them without feeling sick. We have been treating them since Friday though, and they look much better! Today they are in school for the first time in their lives and I am enjoying this quiet moment before I go later today to find this step mother and talk to her about what is going on. Right now though I am alone for the first time in 2 weeks (except Jane but she doesn't talk ha), and I am soaking it up!!

So we continue to pray. For provision, for healing, for rest. For a bigger house? My yard is running out of room for Friday night and I dont know where everyone is going to sleep. For more hours in the day, or at least a washing machine or a cook or something :) For 248 children to learn and grow and come to know God and His love. I have been given more than BEYOND MEASURE. Pray that I would be able to continue to GIVE with a cheerful heart!

To all those who support me and all these children: You are too many to name. And none of this is possible without you. So be encouraged that YOU ARE CHANGING LIVES. I don't have anything to give you, but GREAT is your reward in Heaven because I see the joy in these little people's faces. You have the prayers of 248 children, whom I KNOW God hears.

Solomon, Sharon's little boy and Jane, taking a nap.

Our 4 new friends (before their bath!) We are so happy to be loving on them until we see what God is going to do in their little lives!