Global Aid Network Mission Reports

I have been looking forward to this day since I heard that we were going to visit an Elderly
& Invalid’s Home.  Now, I love going to all the sites but this one touches my heart since I am of the same age as some of them.  I know that they feel some of the same things I feel
as an older person.  Our team reached our destination and was taken to an auditorium where some of the patients were awaiting our arrival.  As we introduced ourselves, I told them my name was Peggy and I was seventy years old and single. 
 
Our small group, Chris, Lise’ and I, were one of the mobile teams that went from room to room to visit the immobile.  Our first visit was with one gentlemen who was lying on his bed with his eyes closed.  I knelt by his bed and took his hand and said, “My name is Peggy, I am the angel you prayed for.”  He opened his eyes and looked around laughing.  We told him we came to tell him how much God loved him.  We asked permission to pray with him and we knelt and took his hands and Chris prayed.   He was appreciative as we hugged him and left gifts.   We visited room after room of hurting, lonely people, some more than others.  I was touched as I watched my teammates tenderly touch and love each one. One of the younger men we visited sat silently crying as Chris prayed.  I held him and told him in Russian, “Jesus loves you.”

I felt compelled to take their faces in my hands and look into their eyes and tell them in Russian, “Jesus loves you.”  It didn’t matter whether it was a man or woman, today, I saw only someone that needed to be loved.  I embraced and kissed each one.  Jesus loves you.