Do not worry about tomorrow
Director Josue and wife Lilia give everything they have to care for the Orphanage children
I’m writing this from Mexico, where the El Sauzal Foundation, Inc. has been meeting. (This is my first blog actually posted from Mexico!) We have had two full, busy, exhausting days. Hot meeting rooms, long hours, working through nitty gritty details, and dreaming about where the Orphanage is going in the future. It has been draining, but fulfilling.
Near the end of day today, Josue and Erika addressed our group. They spoke honestly of the joys and hardships of their ministry. Just this month, Josue used all of his salary to pay for graduation expenses for various children and college fees for Ramiro. Both Josue and Erika have so little available money, they were concerned with having enough gas to make it to the meeting, only fifteen minutes from the Orphanage. Yet, when Erika talked with the group, she thanked us. Her words were powerful to me.
“Thank you that you are doing your best and we know. I think we’re [the Orphanage and Foundation] doing great.
We’re used to this. We’re used to not having money. It is frustrating. It is stressful. But God provides. Keep doing what you’re doing and God will do the rest.”
Clay Warren, Foundation board member and youth pastor of Tacoma Christian Reformed Community Church, opened up a Bible and read Matthew 6:25-34,
“..do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear….Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow.”
I am deeply humbled by the faith that my Mexican friends have. I have always known that the leaders of the Orphanage have a deep, strong faith. For some reason, though, today it hit home more powerfully. Their’s is a faith I strive to have. I pray that I can learn from their example.
Assistant director Erika loves the children with all of her heart