Orphan babies revisited

Have you ever done something and years later wondered whatever came of that?

In 1998 God touched our family with a word from the Bible, James 1:27 “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

It was then that we began visiting orphanages and helping widows and orphans all around the world through our ministry, World Ministries International. In Kenya we have helped over 15 babies with our family. Trisha is pictured with our most recent baby Joseph.

The majority of the babies that we have taken care of have been adopted, mostly by foreigners, but some by Kenyan families. A couple years ago one of the babies, Benedict, was adopted by a family from the Kenyan coast of Diani- just south of Mombasa. In January we were blessed to take a trip to the coast and were able to visit Benedict and his family.

Benedict

Benedict and his new family

It was so nice to see Benedict in a happy home being loved by wonderful parents. We gave him a toy car only to find out that he absolutely loves cars. When we were leaving we let him “drive” our car and he would not let go of the steering wheel. We had to drive him around for quite awhile until he was finally willing to release his grip (pictured). Seeing Benedict again with his wonderful family was a nice reminder to us that we are making a difference and changing the destiny of the lives of orphan children.