What Every Child Needs

One of the highlights of our mission trip to Guatemala is our visit to an orphanage in Antingua where we get to spend time with children that have various disabilities. It is when we feel the most love, mercy and compassion. Unfortunately these children spend up to 80% of their day in their "cribs". If it is wet or cold, most likely they will spend little time out of them.

They are so different when they are in our arms, as opposed to how stoic they are in their cribs. Most of them are over medicated. However, when we pick them up, hold them, talk to them, you see them change before your eyes.

Sometimes we get to take them out to lunch. They are overjoyed when given the chance. Their occasional freedom is due in large part to Dick Rutgers, an American missionary who moved to Guatemala over a decade ago. With out Dick's compassion and mercy, these children would not be given the opportunities they have today.

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