Our team member Aletsaida Lovett with a blind child at one of the orphanages we visited in China.

Back from China

It is a wonderful thing to get back home to our family and friends after twelve days away from them. Our journey begun taking a flight from Orlando to Atlanta, another from Atlanta to Seattle, and a third one from Seattle to Beijing. We visited two orphanages that we have been supporting since 2008 and met church leaders, did prayer walks at important locations, along with many other things that for obvious reasons we cannot publish here. We were a group of 13 people very eager to show the love of Jesus Christ in different ways and the Lord brought to our attention those specific moments to minister the spiritual needs of the Chinese nation.

I remember at the Imperial Summer Palace in Beijing, a women showed up pushing a wheel chair. When I look at the chair what I saw was one of the kids from our church. I have to look twice because of that. She was selling ice cream and it was obvious her survival depended upon the sales she would perform. Thus, she was speaking loudly, offering her ice cream to anyone that walk in near her. One of the team members that was with me asked me if he could give her 100 Yuan. I told him our policy os not to give money to anyone because when you give to one person, all of the sudden you would have 30 people around you asking for money. Nevertheless, we remained praying and talking to each other about a way to help this lady. Then, all of the sudden, both of us got the same message from above. I open my mouth and told to my brother in the Lord "let's ..." And while I was opening my mouth and saying those words, my brother had jumped out of the bench we were seating and ran to the lady, and bought all of the ice creams the lady had with her. Then he took the ice cream box and proceed to give free ice cream to the rest of the bystanders. In less than a minute 40 or 50 people were lining up asking for the free ice cream. And at this very moment, the rest of the group was joining us noticing what was happening and they took this opportunity to talk with the people about the Lord and give them some written information about a Christian website with a lot of information about the Bible.

Dr. Bob Tuttle have told me many times that 90 percent of evangelism is showing up and paying attention. This story is an example of how true it is. God is doing great things about the Chinese nation and we want to partner with them with medical teams traveling from the West with the purpose of help the special need children of China. Stay tuned because we are going to have another journey to the most strategic place on earth; the Peoples Republic of China.