How great is our god!!!

One thing that I find absolutely amazing, is that God works in ways that I never would've thought possible. When I was raising the funds needed to come on this trip, people kept donating more andymore, to the point where I was almost $1000 dollars over what I needed. And i thought to myself, "why on earth is God giving me so much extra money?" But you know what... it was, in no way, extra money.

A few days back, Kelsey and I were sitting on the front steps of the church, talking with some of the school children, when Prossy, a 10 year old girl, asked me if I would buy her a uniform. You see, uniforms here are a luxury, in which most families can't afford. My heart broke as i told that young girl that i couldnt buy her a uniform. What I didn't know, is that God had a plan... as always.

Later that same day, Kelsey asked Joshua, the headmaster, how much the uniforms actually cost. And to our surprise, it was 15,000 shillings for the girls, and 18,000 shillings for the boys. 15,000 is equal to roughly 6 american dollars, and 18,000 shillings is equal to roughly 8 american dollars. That is nothing to us, but to these families, theres a very small chance of them being able to afford it. But Kelsey was DETERMINED to buy some of those kids uniforms... let me rephrase that... she wanted to buy ALL of the kids uniforms! Honestly, i didnt think it could be done. But we counted the number of students, and we were shocked to find that there werent nearly as many children as we thought. So we added up the total amount, and as the final numbers came up on my calculator, i thought to myself, "i must be doing the math wrong." I mean, it didnt seem possible that we could afford to buy uniforms for all the students from P1 to P4, for just over $200!!!! We quickly ran into the living room to have my paps double check my math, and it wasnt wrong! For just over $200, we could buy about 38 students uniforms,that they otherwise couldn't have. And that's not even counting the little kids! I am seriously amazed by this!

As I was getting ready for bed last night, i was looking in the mirror, almost in tears at the idea that Kelsey and I are gonna show up at that school in a few weeks, and see all of those children wearing their school's uniforms. And then i realized something, that literally made me say "how great is our God!" I realized, that this wasnt my doing, or Kelsey's doing, or even my Grandparents doing! This is all God. This is all his plan. He knew from the very begining that our money was going to go towards helping those kids!

I want to thank each and everyone of you who donated. Not only did it help get me here, but you have helped provide uniforms for over 60 children! You really have helped a lot! Please keep those prayer coming! And don't forget... Our God, works in AMAZING ways!

God bless you all! - Taylor Fletcher