Posted by: ultraguy | October 23, 2009

Mother Teresa Revisited

19-year old American woman goes to Uganda, helps pay for medical care for some injured orphans; adopts one, then two, then three, then… fourteen. Stays; starts orphanage.

Nineteen years old. Words fail me.

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  1. Some Evangelical leaders are also advocating a return to earlier marriage, as at least some young people are mature enough to marry at nineteen or twenty. The Anchoress has written from time to time on the topic of marriage as a vocation, as an opportunity for self-giving love. It’s a cinch that later marriage, and the multiple partners before that, have not brought more stable or longer lasting marriages.

    It would seem that we have ideas about when things ought to occur that completely ignore God’s timing for us. This young lady has reset her clock to God’s time, and is being abundantly blessed by doing so. (And what a blessing she is, too, to those kids!)

    Looking into the future a bit, can you imagine what is going to happen, if she does go to college, and some Marxist professor starts spouting off about Africa, after she’s spent years there? The young men and women who have been to Iraq and Afghanistan, others who have had other lengthy and profound experience of the real world, are going to make all that theorizing look as shallow and wispy as it really is. “This is the Lord’s doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.”

    By: Michael on October 25, 2009
    at 6:47 am

  2. Thank you for posting this. Wonderful, inspiring, and just the reminder of God’s goodness, and of how He wants to work through each of us in our lives right here and now, that I needed to be reminded of.

    By: Jess on October 24, 2009
    at 4:56 pm

  3. Thanks for posting this link. I was very happy to send funds for such an incredible mission.

    By: Anthony on October 24, 2009
    at 9:53 am

  4. Amazing.

    By: Anne on October 23, 2009
    at 8:28 pm

  5. Francis Chan; CRAZY LOVE ought to feature this. This is what he is talking about. She understands, and struck out to do right, before she could become entangled in the world as an adult.

    [I'm not sure how/if they're related, but Chan's church (Cornerstone) in Simi Valley, CA has significant missionary relationships with and presence in Uganda. I'd be surprised if they didn't know one another.

    Not everyone is cut out for this kind of hard work overseas in a third world country, obviously. (I'm pretty certain I'd fold within weeks!!) And I'm certainly not against education -- far from it.

    But this has really made me think about why it is that most of us automatically assume, in America, that going right off to college (an environment we know to be dominated by and intent on indoctrinating an anti-Christian worldview) is the best thing, the only thing, or even the right thing for our 18-year-olds.

    The Greatest Generation (birth years roughly 1918 to 1928) served and was tested before they ever got a college degree and look what kind of role they have played in our society. -ed.]

    By: El Gallo on October 23, 2009
    at 8:28 pm

  6. I went to the kissfromkatie blog, and like you, words fail me. The love this young woman has for the children in Uganda brought tears to my eyes. I’ve been looking for a place to share the goodness and blessings Yahuwah has given me, and you just showed it to me. Thank you for what you do, and for putting this on your blog. When you see the smile on her face holding one of those children, you can almost see Yahushua smiling as well. Thanks again. Mike

    By: mike on October 23, 2009
    at 6:00 pm

  7. Amazing and inspiring. Awesome how God moves.

    By: evenshine on October 23, 2009
    at 5:48 pm


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