Tuesday, 30 June 2015

An extraordinary day!

On the way to work one day last month I felt God say to me that today was going to be an 'extraordinary day'.  I hoped that it might mean I'd meet Mr Right or receive a life time supply of Dairy Milk chocolate....but no it was something else!

There has been a family known to some of our staff through their church who there were particular concerns about given their vulnerability.  We’re going to call them the Hong family.

In the week leading up to this ‘extraordinary’ day there were roadworks close to the area where some of our children from our centre live…so when taking them home in our centre tuk tuk we have had to drive a different way (I don’t drive it don’t worry!)  So on that particular day the staff member driving was somebody who knew the Hong family.   

This staff member shared with me when getting back to the centre that they thought that they had seen the Hong family on the street just sitting there.  So we got on the moto and off we went.

Sure enough when we arrived we saw the Hong children and mother.  The children were so happy to see somebody they knew and wanted to be hugged for a long time.

Mother Hong was sitting there looking very low, with 3 young children and with small bags with all her worldly possessions in them.  They were close to an area known for Western paedophiles having easy access to children.

We were able to take the family back to our centre where they could eat, shower, talk and play.  I think the children thought all of their Christmas’s had come at once with the amount of toys they had to play with!

A long story short but our staff were able to make sure that the Hong family were taken to a safe place and agreement was sought that longer term work would be undertaken by the church the family is linked to. 


What I love about this story is that our staff would not have seen the Hong family if the usual route had been available and if the usual staff member was driving.  And we got to the family before anybody wanting to harm the children had appeared.  Truly an extraordinary day and proof of the care that God gives His children…thank you God!

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