USA – Harvest Kids, Faithful to the Vision, August 12, 2025

“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” (James 1:27)

“At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?’ He called a little child and had him stand among them. And He said, ‘I tell you the truth; unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 18:1-4)

“The word of the Lord came to me: ‘Son of man, what is this proverb you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by and every vision comes to nothing’? Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am going to put an end to this proverb, and they will no longer quote it in Israel.’ Say to them, ‘The days are near when every vision will be fulfilled. For there will be no more flattering divinations among the people of Israel. But I the Lord will speak what I will, and it shall be fulfilled without delay.” (Ezekiel 12:21-25)

So what happens when a command from Jesus is imparted as a vision into the heart and mind of a child? An explosion? Or maybe a better description might be a “nuclear reaction”. 

She was 4 ½ years old and overheard her grandfather telling her mother about sleeping in a pastor’s home in Africa and in the small room next to his were orphaned girls sleeping on the floor. She came and told them that: “Those girls should have a bed like I do!”

Five months later, they traveled to Africa to meet the young orphan girl, Peace, that was the child chosen to represent all the orphaned girls and was used to help generate funds to build them a home. The home was half completed. And “Peace” became their “sister”.

On the return home during the layover in London, the young girl and her sister’s vision was expanded to help all the children in Africa.

And they started what is today, over 12 years later, Harvest Kids.

Five months later, mother traveled by herself to welcome the girls into their new home. She brought with her a large canvas with a tree painted on it and the handprints of all the children and adults in Harvest Kids. She also brought back to the USA, a duplicate canvas that had the children’s handprints from the primary school where the home was built. The girl’s sister, Peace, now had a mother.

That “mother” was called home to serve our Father by continuing to intercede with Jesus one year ago this month. Obedient to that pure and faultless command and praying that the Holy Spirit will continue to bring workers to complete the vision.

This last Saturday, Harvest Kids, crushed aluminum cans donated from our community that will be sent to help encourage families in Africa that have unselfishly took on whatever sacrifice will be required for themselves and their own children to care for orphans. We also completed the Harvest Kids last ‘assigned vision’ and today wired the money needed to build 11 bunkbeds and purchase 22 mattresses for orphaned boys that sleep on the floor of a classroom at the Nalidi Grace primary school in eastern Uganda. The school has a total attendance of 348 and about 70 are orphaned and the school in their home and their family.

The joy of the Lord is our strength because the anchor we hold to through faith in Jesus Christ and in being about the ‘Father’s business’ is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we cannot see. Scattered around the globe and if the truth be told, even if they don’t know Him – I know their “Dad” – because their “Dad” is also my “Dad”.