I was a bit disgruntled not to be getting a seat next to any of our happy crew on any of the flights home. This may have been due to my coming out a couple of days later than the others. In any case I kind of half heartedly prayed that God would use the situation for His glory and that I wouldn't be quite such a whooossss and just wo- 'man up!'
After our 'bump' to Rwanda the lovely Lorna had a spare seat next to her so I joined our happy throng and thought nothing more of the oncoming journey.
Little did I know how much more God wanted to bless me on this homeward journey...
On the Nairobi - Amsterdam leg I was seated next to a Ugandan lady, Olivia, and within minutes started up a conversation. She wanted to know what we had been doing in Burundi so I was able to share some of our stories with her and then she told me that she was a 'Compassion' child. She had been sponsored by Compassion from early childhood. Her father had been killed when she was just 5 and her mother had died the following year. She and her siblings were taken in by her aunt and uncle. I didn't ask the details of how Compassion then became involved but she said that her two Compassion sponsors, one in Kent, UK and the other in America had funded her education all the way through school and now university (in America). She has met with both her sponsors and talked about the importance of having this direct contact and of building integral relationships with them.
Olivia is a strong woman of faith, she is another servant who puts Christ at the centre and listens to His call. She has been helping set up similar projects to the ones we have seen in Burundi, with her church back in Uganda (on a purely voluntary basis) and I am confident God will use her mightily wherever and whatever He leads her to in the future.
It was amazing for me to meet a 'child' of Compassion. I had only a couple of days earlier been talking with Helen about Compassion and whether it might be something I might be led to do....... I think I might have gotten some answers of affirmation through meeting Olivia!!!!
Fee x
After our 'bump' to Rwanda the lovely Lorna had a spare seat next to her so I joined our happy throng and thought nothing more of the oncoming journey.
Little did I know how much more God wanted to bless me on this homeward journey...
On the Nairobi - Amsterdam leg I was seated next to a Ugandan lady, Olivia, and within minutes started up a conversation. She wanted to know what we had been doing in Burundi so I was able to share some of our stories with her and then she told me that she was a 'Compassion' child. She had been sponsored by Compassion from early childhood. Her father had been killed when she was just 5 and her mother had died the following year. She and her siblings were taken in by her aunt and uncle. I didn't ask the details of how Compassion then became involved but she said that her two Compassion sponsors, one in Kent, UK and the other in America had funded her education all the way through school and now university (in America). She has met with both her sponsors and talked about the importance of having this direct contact and of building integral relationships with them.
Olivia is a strong woman of faith, she is another servant who puts Christ at the centre and listens to His call. She has been helping set up similar projects to the ones we have seen in Burundi, with her church back in Uganda (on a purely voluntary basis) and I am confident God will use her mightily wherever and whatever He leads her to in the future.
It was amazing for me to meet a 'child' of Compassion. I had only a couple of days earlier been talking with Helen about Compassion and whether it might be something I might be led to do....... I think I might have gotten some answers of affirmation through meeting Olivia!!!!
Fee x
http://www.compassionuk.org/
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