Wednesday November 3rd, 2010
Today we spent with Baptist Global Response which is part of International Mission Board. They have a small compound very near where the epicenter of the quake was. They are focusing on building homes in the surrounding communities and have built a few hundred since April. After spending some time getting to know the team onsite we ventured out to visit one of the communities in which they are working. The homes for the most part are 12’x16’, with cinder block walls and a tin roof. They do have a concrete floor as well. No indoor plumbing and no indoor kitchen, simply a safe room in which to sleep and gather together. Here is a picture of the tent community which is left in the area.. 
Here is a picture of what the new homes being built look like…. 
While wandering through the “streets” and “alleys” we came to a small yellow home where Jimmy and his wife live. They have converted their little home into one of the cleanest orphanages we have seen this trip. Inside this home are 16 orphan children from about age 2-3 up to a set of 14 year old twins. The smiles were genuine and each child was clean and polite. It is clear that Jimmy and his wife poor everything they have into caring for the children..yet they have only one church who helps them…sometimes. What they have been able to accomplish so far is incredible yet what they could accomplish with support is amazing to think of. 
James 1:27 (New International Version)
27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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