ICF and going to the orphanage

Sara and Erik from Sweden, enjoying fellowship time last week at ICF!

Timi and Bela! Bela and his family provide fruit every Friday evening!

Some of us will be going to an orphanage this coming Monday and pouring love into 3-5 year olds!

We're blessed each week with new faces, and old! God is so very good!

Regina donning her Santa hat! Last Friday was Mikulas day....Santa Claus day...Santa brings small gifts and chocolates to children, who have cleaned their boots inside and out the previous evening and put them in the window. Santa fills them! Then on December 24th, the baby Jesus brings the gifts! I love that they separate Santa and Jesus here in Hungary!

This post is a week 'late'...sorry. These pix are from last Friday evening. Got busy and distracted, but here you go!

We are excited to go to the orphanage this coming Monday afternoon! There are 13 little boys and girls ages 3-5 and we'll be bringing coloring books, crayons, and fruit to them, plus we hope to love on them through games and songs and just being with them. We hope to see the little babies as well...newborns to age 2....but Hungarian law won't allow us to go in and hold the babies.

My heart is being increasingly turned toward orphans....literal and spiritual! I have some new friends who are adopting 3 handicapped boys from an orphanage in Ukraine right now and taking them back to the U.S. to be immersed in the love of God in their family and at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City.

Spiritual orphans are just as prevalent...many followers of Jesus still live as orphans, with wounds from the past keeping them from living in the fullness of God's love, forgiveness and freedom.

Only God can meet both types of orphans, in His perfect ways! May we be open to being His hands and feet, allowing Him to show us how to pour out His love into people's lives!