God of This City

Thursday July 4th

We took the bigger kids outside to play today! They had a blast we gave them little balls to play with that I brought and some blow up beach balls and a lot of chalk!

This little three year old Dora is the cutest and smartest thing ever!!! She has only been in the orphanage 1 year. But we will say something to her in English and she will repeat it and sound just like us!

We left at 11:30 for the nap and lunch break for the kids and came back at 3. We got to play with the babies for the rest of the day, it was full of changing diapers, feeding, changing into the new clothes we brought and putting hair bows on the little girls. We left around 5:30 and went to dinner at this restaurant that all the alumni on the team call fried banana because they serve really good fried bananas.

 In our devotion tonight we sang Forever Reign and God of this City, which is in a way our anthem for this trip.

You’re the God of this city - You’re the King of these people - You’re the Lord of this nation - You are
You’re the light in this darkness - You’re the hope to the hopeless - You’re the peace to the restless - You are
There is no one like our God - There is no one like our God
Greater things have yet to come - And greater things are still to be done in this city - Greater things have yet to come - And greater things are still to be done in this city
You’re the God of this city - You’re the King of these people - You’re the Lord of this nation - You are
You’re the light in this darkness - You’re the hope to the hopeless - You’re the peace to the restless - You are
There is no one like our God - There is no one like our God

Greater things have yet to come - And greater things are still to be done in this city - Greater things have yet to come - And greater things are still to be done in this city
Greater things have yet to come - And greater things are still to be done in this city - Greater things have yet to come - And greater things are still to be done here
There is no one like our God - There is no one like our God
We believe - Greater things have yet to come - And greater things are still to be done in this city - We believe - Greater things have yet to come - And greater things are still to be done in this city
Greater things have yet to come - And greater things are still to be done in this city - Greater things have yet to come - And greater things are still to be done here
We believe, we believe greater things - Greater things, greater things - Greater things, greater things

This song is my hope for this city, these people, that they will come together that we can find the connections here to keep on making changes and helping the orphanage year round after we are gone. That it will not just end with us coming once a year, but that others in the community will stand up and do what’s right. These kids deserve that, and so much more.

Being here I haven’t even really thought about surfing the web, checking facebook, twitter, instagram, or texting anyone from my phone. I don’t have any of those things. All I have is my email and sometimes skype. Its been nice, it makes you really think and put things into perspective. These kids do not have any of these things, they don’t have ANYTHING and are so grateful when they get something as small as a little ball to play with. These kids are changing my life, and all I want is to do more for them.