Orphan Sunday

This past Sunday we spoke at Coulter Road Baptist Church in Amarillo, TX. It just happened to be national Orphan Sunday. After the first service a woman came up to our table with her son. He was probably about 5 or 6 years old. His name was Billy. His mother said, "Billy has some money he wants to give to New Day." Then she turned to him and asked him, "Do you want to tell them why you are giving this money?" Billy's eyes were filled with tears and he huddled close to his mother with his head down. When he did not speak, his mother told us that Billy's dad died just died recently. Billy was very touched by the stories of the children at New Day. He felt a bond with them because, like him, they too had lost their fathers. He understood their pain. He handed me $40. What a big sacrifice for such a little boy. 

Billy smiles when we give him a New Day hat to wear. His mother is on the left, and  the pastor of Coulter Road Baptist Church, Chris Robeson on the right who is proudly wearing the African shirt we gave him last year.

When we share at churches, our goal is to touch the hearts of people to give so that New Day can minister to the orphans of Zambia, but to hear that we had touched the heart of this little boy, who himself just became an orphan, was probably the highlight of our day. Pray for Billy to feel God's comfort and to know that His heavenly Father loves him.