When Juan Ocampo attended Winter Jam Christian concert recently, he realized that God was directing him toward sponsoring a child. The following is Juan’s account of that event:
I can’t say that I am very familiar with today’s top Christian artists, but I was familiar enough with a few, and thank God that He is able to use the music and the artists to do His work. I have to say that I was moved by the mass of youth praising the Lord and having fun in their faith. It was a full house of over 10,000 people, and 1,800 souls were saved that night.
Holt International is an organization that helps “give orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children safe and nurturing environments in which to develop,” and they were one of the organizations and sponsors involved with the tour. My wife and I attended the concert to enjoy the celebration of our faith, but after the Holt International story and testimonies of former orphans, we looked at each other with certainty of what the Lord was calling us to do. God had touched my wife and I to sponsor a child.
We headed to the crowded table where Holt International staff and all the pamphlets of needy children were. On our way to the table, my wife and I were praying for God’s direction and while peeking through the wall of people, I glanced at the table, and out jumped the face of a beautiful little girl on the cover of a pamphlet. In a swift moment I continued to scan the rest of the table to see if God would confirm who the child would be.
Quite honestly, it’s not easy choosing one child when so many need help, and it saddened our hearts to know that we could only help one. So, there we were still waiting for our turn to be shown the pamphlets of the children, when…One of the staff members handed us a handful of pamphlets of needy children. And, yes, you guessed it; the little girl who jumped out at us was one of the little girls in the bunch of pamphlets. My wife and I knew that God had spoken to us and we registered to sponsor that child.
I took the rest of the pamphlets and handed them to a lady who wanted to look at them and she ended up sponsoring a child. She then handed the pamphlets to someone else and the sponsoring moved forward. Seeing the handful of pamphlets, that began in my hands being sponsored by others was God’s way of telling us that, though we could only sponsor one child, He would always provide for the other children to be sponsored as well. Me and my wife’s hearts melted and we thanked God for His love.
My wife and I registered to sponsor the 4 years young little girl from the Ukraine for 6 months at $30 a month. That is a minimal amount of money that will help her with her medicines and general needs. That’s the least we could do. I’m sure it will go on beyond the six months, but everything has a beginning. My wife and I just thank God for giving us the love in our hearts to see the needs of these children, and for Him providing for us to be able to help. What more can I say, but to God all the honor and glory.
Winter Jam is holding concerts until March in various cities, and Holt International is asking volunteers to help with child sponsorship sign up at the events.
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