An act of Compassion
An act of Trust
And act of Faith
February 24, 2012
An Act of Compassion
The Limon Feeding Kitchen was started about 10 years afoe after a visit to Limon, Honduras by Danny and Brenda Arnold of AHMEN and Christ UMC of Jasper, Al., and a conversation with the citizens of the rural Grifina village of Limon. Cruzadas del Evangelico, a evangelical protestant church with a church in Limon had a bunch of hungry orphans. Then Danny and Brenda met with Cristina and Pastor David Ventura and began feeding 50 to 60 orphans and widows five days a week.
An Act of Trust:
Anna Capron, wife of the pastor of Christ UMC of Jasper, Al. visited the feeding kitchen 5 years ago and wanted to turn it into a nurture center. She works in the area of child development and nutrition. She and husband Rev. Dale began the financing of the expanded Nurture Center. They held a” fund raising”
i n 2011 to expand the finances to cove the extra money. The next year Dale met with Pastor Ventura and they committed to expand, with the help of the local church of Limon, to nurture, mentor, “father”, “mother”, tudor, and much more.
i n 2011 to expand the finances to cove the extra money. The next year Dale met with Pastor Ventura and they committed to expand, with the help of the local church of Limon, to nurture, mentor, “father”, “mother”, tudor, and much more.
Dale came home and raised the necessary money thru an interesting system. He had the food either donated or purchases himself. Officered the food for free if a person would come to the meeting to hear what he had to say about the kids.
And by Jeminy he did it.
An Act of FAITH:
When I am in charge of anything, I tend to micromanager every detail. I hustle, call, worry, work, re check, stay up, etc, etc., and then, oh yeh, I say a little prayer.
I think tonight I saw a little different priority. This is not to say Rev. Dale didn’t work - he did. But I think he spent a lot more time in prayer than I usually do.
Tonight was our annual fund raiser for the Limon Nurture Center. Even before we started, he had raised more than 1/2 of the money. Then at the meeting, he gave away the food we had to purchase with the money raised last year, and only 33 people showed up. During his presentation, you could see his Compassion, his Trust, and most of all his Faith in God that His will would be done.
I guess you know what happened. by the time the night was over we had lots of folks interested in the program, in addition to other programs orchestrated by AHMEN (and GOD).
Thanks Dale for showing us the power of Faith and prayer and, once again, demonstrating for us the potential power of trust and compassion.
If you would like to know more about the Limon Nurture Center contact:
Rev. Dale Capron
Christ UMC
Jasper, Al.
dale.capron@yahoo.com
