Generosity in Poverty
Global Nomad
Thought you would appreciate this story of generosity from SE Asia.
In March 2004… I happened to stay (after church) and talk with the elder family of the church and he mentioned about two of their grandchildren who were to be sent to the Buddhist temple to educate them by the monks as they could not care for these two boys. The mother died and the father was a drunkard. They lived with their old grandparents who were hardly surviving, struggling to get their daily food in the remote village. The drunkard father decided to send the children to the temple. The old grandmother…requested, with tearful eyes, for me to find a Christian orphanage as they did not want the children to live with the monks and become one of the monks. In the night service, eleven year old Micah played guitar and lead the songs at the service as there were just a few people in the village. I realized who these children were to be sent to the monks. My heart was pricked to help this boy and I decided to bring the two boys to my father’s house as I lived with my parents. ..
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Global Nomad
30 June 2010
Posted on: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 1:59 am 
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