Gracie

This woman,  is the strongest, most loving, selfless, God-fearing woman I have ever met. Grace and her husband Gideon started the orphanage just a few years ago. Gideon is the pastor of Salama Baptist Church. Grace and Gideon started a medical dispensary and the orphanage both through faith that God would provide the means necessary to complete these difficult tasks. They rescue children whose parents have died due to AIDS or any kind of illness. Basically, Grace and Gideon are the parents of 42 beautiful little children. They know each by name and love them with the love that a father or mother would give them. My life goal is to become half of the woman that Mama Gracie is. She is a light. Plain and simple. You look at her and her life and her ministry and you don't see Grace. You see Jesus. What a beautiful picture of what we as believers are supposed to look like. We are supposed to reflect our creator in every aspect of our lives, and worship Him as our Lord. Not just on sunday mornings at church, but in our normal everyday tasks. Our number one mission in life is to glorify God in all that we do. I don't think that we will ever get to the point where we 'arrive' at this place of perfectly glorifying God. I think that it will be a process, a way of our lives. To desire Christ above all else is the most beautiful thing to me. The longing of my heart is to know him in a much deeper and personal way. Matthew 5:!4 says: "You are the Light of the World. A city on a hill cannot be hidden." This reminds me of Grace. She shines so brightly for Jesus.