Blessing Our Elderly

The ministry of Bread of Life has as one of its primary goals to provide a future for the poor abandoned children whose families have disintegrated.  With the help of all supporters, sponsoring churches, and staff members, these precious children now look ahead with hope.  The gospel call for all of us including these children is more than just looking ahead.  It is also looking back at the older generation with not only respect but also affection and the willingness to help.  The river that runs through our small village is called the Bistrita River.  Not far from our village and alongside this same river there is a hospital.  I say that it is a hospital because that is how it started out.  Here a number sick and elderly people have come for help.  With no proper home or caring family to go home to many of them simply stayed.  In America you would describe this type of facility as a nursing home.  Many people in the area do not know about this home for poor and lonely elderly people.  This is not surprising since the frail and elderly are often overlooked or forgotten.  They are not however forgotten by God, and we are commanded by God’s word to visit them and help them and so we do.  This Christmas our children visited this “hospital” with gift bags containing food items for the residents.  The children also sang for them several Christmas carols which are holiday favorites in Romania.  The older people were surprised and delighted and the children left that day having learned that it is good and right to look back.

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