Feeding the Orphans

From September 2010 to June 2012 I was literally living off the support of my friends, family, and people I dont even know so that I could serve God in Burkina Faso.  These people (maybe even you) were so generous that when I had raised enough in February 2012 to finish my time there and asked them to stop (yes, I had to ask people to stop giving me money) - they still didn't.

So, I left the money in Burkina Faso and have been handing it out since.  Much of the money went to the youth group, WIRED, that I had been running the last 2 years.  Some went to the Dorcus House and the rest has gone to different projects that the CMA has been working on in the country.  

Here is the lastest update of where that money has gone from Betty who is working with Envision in Burkina:

This past week we went up to the orphanage in Yako. Ruth Cox the directress had just had a car accident and fractured her wrist and really messed up her car. She had gone off the road and hit a road sign. Thankfully the other people were not hurt. The same week one of their bright young students, age

18, who had been involved in a serious accident this summer and survived, who was a role model for the younger students, died suddenly. They did not know if he had residual injuries from the earlier accident and died from internal bleeding, but on the way to the hospital he died. They had faced these two events at basically the same time. You can imagine how discouraged they were.

They also live super simply there, and that is putting it mildly to say the least. They eat a lot of pasta and rice and lots of very basic veggies that they can buy locally.

We went and told them we would be bringing lunch. We went to the store and bought them sliced lunch ham, sliced cheese, hamburger meat for making some hamburgers, fresh buns and pita bread, lots of in season fresh fruit and veggies, grapefruit, avocados, watermelon, potato chips, fresh potatoes, and many other items too.

When we sat down for lunch with the Yako team and pulled out the sliced ham and cheese with the fresh buns and pita bread you would not have believed how excited they were. They were grinning from ear to ear, got a camera and took a picture of them with ham and cheese and when they ate they were rolling their eyes in pleasure and talking about how great it was. Such a simple thing that made such a big impact on these people who work so hard at Yako.

All of this was done through the generosity of Hannah [and by Hannah she means Hannah's supporters] and we want her to know what happened and also that we have enough money to make another or even several more trips like this one. Our next trip to Yako will be in December and we are going to take rice and oil and some money for the orphans food, as well as another nice batch of meat, cheese, fruits and veggies for the missionaries and interns too. Hannah [again, my supporters!] , through her generosity is helping to really bless this ministry and we cannot thank her enough for this.

Let her [Hannah's supporter] know that her [their] gift has and is making a real impact in lifting spirits and improving conditions in Yako!

Betty