Abenezer!

So I've written before about how i decided to take up a challenge and sponsor a kid who lives in Ethiopia despite the fear of financial burden or if I could make a difference in his family's life. After getting the brochure and official "he is yours to help" papers, i wrote my first letter to Abenezer, it was a while ago. So I can't quite remember what I wrote about, but I remember it was basically about how excited I was to get to know him and hopefully help his family and him grow in Christ.

After the entire month of October passed, I heard nothing about him. No "he got your letter" or "he's doing great" or even a letter back from him himself. I got pretty sad, not gonna lie, I thought man, am I not gonna get to know this kid? I even checked my bank account to see if they've even taken the money I agreed to pay per month and they had. But...keep in mind I'm pretty impatient a lot of times and it's not my best virtue.

I got a letter from Abenezer a few days ago after a long night at work which had been stressful and seeing that I had finally gotten a letter had brighten my morning so much more. The letter is pretty simple, favorite color-red (just like me!) favorite sport-football (or soccer as we call it hah) etc etc. And he asked me what is the local church i worship in and to pray for his success at school and for his family (and you're welcome to help me pray for him :)) and the amazing thing here is he wrote he wants to be a medical doctor. That's pretty awesome in my opinion. I just hope I can do whatever I can to help him reach that goal!

All in all I'm pretty stoked i finally heard from him and writing him back. I hope and pray that God uses me to keep supporting him and help him in his relationship with Christ as well as he helping me in my relationship with Christ. And hopefully one day I'll get to meet him.