You’ll love this story. Want to know what it means to explore and experience the values of the kingdom? Read the December 17 blog at Touch-a-Life.
Here’s the beginning — just to whet your appetite so you want to finish the story:
A year ago my future mother-in-law Joanne told me about Oprah interviewing Pam Cope. She said it was amazing. That night curiosity got the best of me and I had to get online and check it out. I consider Africa my homeland, having spent most my childhood there, and she’d said Pam had read about a little African slave boy in a major Newspaper here in the US, and had gone and found him and others and rescued them from slavery. It gave me goose bumps.
I went to Oprah’s site and read it all. I checked out the interview, the photo blog and read just about every linked article I could find. As naïve as it may sound, I hadn’t thought of slavery as a present day problem in Africa… and wow… I was dead wrong. For several days afterwards I prayed for the kids still in slavery and felt all this sadness, like I needed to do something. I called Joanne and thanked her for telling me about the story… but that was about it.
It wasn’t until about four months later—early spring—when I was planning my wedding that the plight of children in Ghana came back to me. I have always trusted God to guide my mind and heart. Usually when I hear something significant—like Pam’s story and work—I commit it to God, trusting that if I am meant to participate, He will tell me when and where. Well it was the middle of spring and God was just about to poke my memory.