About a week ago I was telling a friend what's new in my life. She was the leader of my first mission trip when I was 15 and we have kept in touch ever since. I was so excited to tell her about this trip to Africa. (Sometimes I find it hard to believe that this is really official.) She responded so differently than others I have told. The one thing that she said over and over was "I'm proud of you, so proud of you."
My love language is most definitely quality time. However, words of affirmation are close to the top. (This may come as a surprise because I am not great at accepting these words.) I was soooo extremely happy to hear my friend say she was proud. People that I thought would be excited didn't even come close to these words.
It made we wonder. What love language would best reach the children in Ethiopia and Rwanda? In my short time there, how can I show them how much I care? What way can I best tell them that they are important and loved? Even when I am not there, when other teams are not there loving these kids, how do they know they are loved? How do they they are a child of God?
