When the church is family

Hello my beautiful and ever loving friends. 💗

First of all, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to you all for the love, care and support you have all given to me yesterday. I reply appreciated. You all gave me the courage and inspiration I needed and Gos knows I am very grateful

I feel so blessed to May God continue to bless you all. Wishing you all a splendid Sunday and a awesome new month ahead in good health and happiness

So, today after service, Mom and i went to see our bishop. Mom have ben having some nightmares for a while now and she decided to go see the bishop for some spiritual guidance and counselling. After the bishop jad Finished praying g for us, he offered to giv us a ride home, we were about to leave when a young lady from a distnce beckoned on us to wait for her. I sathe look o distress written all ver her face and i immediately knew that she had something very important to say to the bishop..

she was with a very young child that couldn't be more than a week old. As she came close, She obviously looked sadder and I thought.

Nevertheless, I was very fascinated at the sight of the baby she was holding and I thought that anyone that had such a beautiful child should be full of smiles instead. But the young woman who wouldn't be more than 20 looked very worried.

She began to cry as soon as she opened her mouth to speak. She inadvententy got pregnant when still a student at the college. As soon as she realized that she was with child, she became very scared and thought that her poor parents would be very disappointed in her. She managed to hid the pregnancy from them all this time while at school even though she regularly communicated with her parents through phone calls but never told them about it.

She thought her father would find it hard to forgive her when he learnt that his only daughter got pregnant at the middle of her education, so she decided to keep the pregnancy a secret .

And now that the baby have arrived,she wanted the church to help her look after it while she further in her education.

The bishop really felt for her and promised that the church would do her best to take Care of her child while she's away. .

Afterall, God is the father of the fatherless. If the biological father of the child deny him, then God will never deny the child. I Felt really sorry for the little child. I have always thought and believed that a child brings joy and happiness to a home.

There are a lot of couples out there who are praying and trusting on God for a child everyday, but this young lady had been blessed with a most beautiful child but she wanted to do away with it because she thought that the child would be an obstacle to her happiness. How strange.

The bishop commended the young lady for not aborting the baby during its pregnancy as some other girls would. He made her realize that every child have the right to live and survive.

"God has great plans for this child", the bishop said to her. he would live in the glory of the lord. The bishop prayed for the young mother who had now began to sob. He assured her that she could always come to visit her child any time at the orphanage in the church.

Our church is a big organization. It also had an orphange and a school within its premises. The orphanage have really been a blessing and had touched the lives of a lot of orphans who were hitherto hopeless after the death of their parents.

My best friend victor is an orphan and had lived in the church orphanage for more than ten years.

His parents had died from a strange illness called tuberculosis. Victor and I were very young at the time of his parents death. Mother had told me that victors parents were really good people.

Mom said that Victor's father have been a very dedicated servant of God who had given alot to the church . He was not exactly a rich man, but the little he had, him and his wife never hesitated to share with the needy around him.

After his death, the church never looked back on his two children: victor and Mary. Mom says that victor and Mary are as kind and good as their late parents and I totally believed her.

Through the help of the church's foundation and the donations of a lot of well wishers who were also church members, victor and his sister were able to live a fairly comfortable life without passing through the many pains associated with losing a parent at an early age.

Victor and his sister had both completed their high school education and would hopefully get admitted to the city's university later this year. I forgot to mention they victor is really a brilliant boy who's very good in maths. Mom also said that he took after the brains of his late father.

Thanks a lot my dear friends for giving me another chance to express myself.

Love you 💗