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By Scott Hensley
Scott Hensley, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Tulia, Texas,
was one of three members of that congregation to work in Leaganul
Orphanage in Targu Mures and a Vacation Bible School-type camp
for special-needs orphans near Lapusna in July. During the camp,
Hensley helped wash and dry many of the children’s feet as part
of a Shoes for Orphan Souls distribution..
I was amazed at the children’s feet. I believe the moment that
struck me the most was looking at the little children’s feet as
they took their old shoes off to receive the new shoes. You could
already see the beginning signs of hard calluses, sores and bunions
and that just broke my heart to see that on such young feet.
Drying the feet of the children was a very special experience.
They’ve never, as far as I know, had any special treatment like
that to where adults could serve them in that way. They have so
few moments of special things in their lives, you could tell it
really just touched their hearts to be treated in a special way.
One thing that went through my mind is that you see the old and
the new in a person when they accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior:
When I saw the pile of old shoes and the pile of new shoes, it
reminded me of taking off the old and putting on the new. And
that is what we were trying to do here with these kids in teaching
them about Jesus – to show them that there is a new life if they
will but take it. We were planting seeds in their hearts and hopefully
they will take on the new life. |
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