August 2020: Raising Up Leaders
Delia is 12 years old and has been part of our 12-hour care program in Romania since 2018. On one of the very first scouting trips our team took to Romania, they met Delia in one of the Roma [Gypsy] villages outside of town. As the team walked through the village, asking God what He wanted to do in Romania, Delia followed. She was very hungry for affection and attention; Delia never left their side that day in 2016.
The village where Delia lives with her parents and older siblings is called Sapte Noiembrie; it is extremely impoverished. As soon as we opened up the 12-hour care program, after the scouting trip in 2016, Delia joined The Mission family. Even before we officially opened, she would often come to the facility just to see what was happening. Now, she is with us every weekday and even joins us for church, on her own, where she volunteers in the children’s church classes. That is where we have seen her come alive! Delia has a true gift for teaching and is brilliant with younger children. We are honored that God coordinated that day in 2016, just to make sure that Delia got to be part of The Mission family in Romania and experience His love through us. Together, we are dreaming with Delia for her future and cannot wait for the day that we get to see her graduate university and become the teacher that she is dreaming of being. Partner with us by sponsoring Delia or a child like her, today.
In Mexico, our incredible education team orchestrated a pop-up graduation for our 90 students that were graduating from preschool, elementary, jr high and high school! It was our biggest graduating class yet! Although we couldn’t host a graduation on-site, we are so thankful to have been able to love them in this way. Five of our high school graduates, three of whom grew up in our orphan-care program, have even decided to continue on and join our School of Missions! They will be starting classes this September; we are immensely proud and cannot wait to see how God moves through each of their lives.
