Christmas Secret Angel
Christmas Secret Angel
Since Christmas of 2007, every year Jubilee Church visits my children’s home to spend time with the kids and to give gifts to each and every one of them. My kids look forward to their visit every year.
This year I had the volunteers arrive at 11am to organize them, prepare them, and to pray together before starting the event with the kids at noon. But when I arrived a little before 11am I was surprised to see some of my kids come out to greet me with a new child. She had arrived the night before, Christmas Eve, a girl in third grade. I went into the office and asked her dorm mom about her and her dorm mom responded, “Could you please provide some clothes for her? She came last night with nothing and she is need of clothes.” Likely social services had found her and brought her to the home. On Christmas Eve.
I got all the volunteers together in the cafeteria and briefly prepped them before leaving them with another ministry staff member to quickly go find the girl some clothes. I drove into the town area but most of the places were closed for the holidays and I was told by other store owners I would have to go to large stores that were too far away. I prayed in my mind as I was driving, knowing I was crunched for time, and then saw a small kids clothes store out of the corner of my eye. It was one of the most random, tiny clothes stores, with no other stores around it. I was able to purchase some good clothes from there and get back just in time for the event.
The sponsors from Jubilee Church had all chipped in for a big lunch with the kids (fried chicken and pizza), and they happened to give just over the amount needed for the food. And that amount happened to be just the amount of money needed to buy the new girl some clothes as her gift for Christmas. I was blessed by how God provided. There is always enough! God knows. =)
Pictures of the event are on our Jerusalem Ministry Facebook page. You can see me giving her the bag of clothes among the photos.
God is good!
