A Real Miracle

Nearly five years ago, a baby girl who was near death was dropped off at an orphanage during the same time we had stepped in to help their distressing home in Liberia. The story given by the people dropping her off was that the child’s mother was mentally ill and had given birth to six babies before this little one. All the children had died before reaching the age of one, due to the severe neglect of the mother, who would leave her children alone in the home for long periods of time. One child was taken over by ants and died; another was repeatedly bitten by unknown animals (possibly rodents) and died. So this little girl was rescued by neighbors who could not bear to see another child die in the hands of this neglectful mother. After hearing her distressing cries day after day, they took her and dropped her off at the only home they felt would take her.

The director of the home was a loving mother, and she stayed up night after night nursing the girl back to health. The director had 85 other children to care for, yet she took that extra time with this little one to save her life. The little girl was given the name Miracle Rebecca because her life truly was a miracle, and we were very involved at the time with their home. When we started working with this orphanage, the 85 children were extremely hungry; they had not eaten for three days. They were living in horrible conditions and suffering terribly. No one else was helping them. Finding the directors to be highly credible and honest people, simply victims of the civil war and poverty, we immediately started dropping off food and then helped them get their home up to sanitary conditions. Because of that, today Miracle and the rest of the children in the home are doing amazingly well. The director reminds us that, had we not come to their aid when we did, many of her children may not be alive today, and she would never have been in the position to accept Miracle into her home. Many lives were rescued due to our involvement and God’s provision. Thank you for making these stories possible by your partnership with us.