On January 4^th, our team in Haiti discovered that brokenness has faces as we entered a walled in property that consisted of a cinderblock building and an acre of barren land. It was hard to imagine that this placed housed 120 orphans. 60% of their parents had died of HIV/AIDS, 40% were abandoned on the street. It was nearly impossible for us to comprehend the conditions these kids were required to live in.

Grey walls surrounded them, dirt floors supported them.  Their clothes were dirty & damp and their feet were callous & bare. Food was sparse and disease was rampant. There was no running water, no bathroom or shower. This place was empty of hope. The normal smiles and laughter of children was absent, for these kids were abandoned and desolate.

Our only reality was God’s love for the helpless and His heart for the orphaned.

So we did the only thing we could do…love the children. We set up a washbasin and began to wash their feet. As the dirt and dust was washed away the love of Christ began to break through. We learned that it is only God’s love that can bring smiles and laughter to children in the midst of brokenness and hopelessness.

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