Today was an unbelievable day!

The Lord has been drilling into my heart, for the last 1 1/2 years now that my number one job is to worship Him, That sounds very basic and simple, but He did not just mean on Sunday, or when the sun is shining. As i woke up aching and sick today, and stood at the stove making breakfast with a tired heart and mosquito bitten hands that had somehow fallen out of the net last night, i quitely began worshipping Him. Homesickness and Fear were the first to come knocking at the door, but Praise went to answer their knock, and turned them away.  Next came Self-pity and her constant sidekick Weariness, and they did not even make it to the door, when they heard that Fear wasn’t allowed in, they did not even knock. By that time, Sickness and his brother Fever were wondering how long they could hang on without being kicked out too!!!!

We settled our boys into their second day of school and turned the car towards HOPE children’s home. Once there we stuffed as many of the older kids into the car as we could (which Ugandans define differently than Americans do :-)) and we set off to find and explore the 22 acres of land that SHOW MERCY has recently purchased. The plans are drawn up for the first phase of building there. The seams of Hope Children’s Home are busting!!! We need to get moving on this new venture!

It was the treat of a lifetime to see just these few children run and romp over the land, what wild territory. They were pointing everywhere, at papaya, banana, jackfruit, avocado, and mango trees. Coffee and vanilla plants, cassava, yams and sugarcane were growing everywhere. The kids began tearing off the sugarcane and laughing and eating away. It was too big to wrap our minds around. The dirt was fertile, and there was acres of it.

It was like walking across a huge blueprint laid across the Lords desk. What on earth does He have planned for this place? All we know is that it is HUGE. The potential is limitless. The children that came with us were the oldest ones in the home, and as we walked past a little mud house on the perimeter of the land, there was a sick baby in the lap of its mother. We stopped to talk to her, and pray for her little boy, and as we started, the voices of these kids all around us crying out to the Lord on behalf of this little one were like beautiful music. These children actually believe that the Lord can heal, because they have seen the Lord heal their lives, and rescue their hearts.

Thank you for being a part of this miracle. You are sowing into the lives of these children, and the plants are growing beautifully! As we prepared to leave, the kids broke off enough sugar cane to bring back to the children left behind at Hope Home. Someday soon there will many additional orphaned children living on this land, and eating the produce that will grow there. Where are those children today? What events are happening in their lives that will lead our paths to eventually cross? Join us in preparing a place for them, join us in pouring out love on them.

Isaiah 54:2-3

"Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; Do not spare; Lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. For you shall expand to the right and to the left, and your descendants will inherit the nations, and make the desolate cities inhabited".

Until He comes and because He will!

Brian and Susan Stubbs

Ben, Luke, Bryce and Adam