Bill and I, together with friends, continue volunteering at the Grand Bahama Children’s Home.
The last Friday of December 2023 Eric and Nathalie and their sons helped us continue clearing and prepping the garden. Look at the size of the sweet potatoes we found unharvested from last fall! We followed up with a pizza party for the children. And limbo! Everyone had fun, stuffed their tummies and laughed together. So fun!
This is what the garden looked like when we started working on it, verses what it looked liked after weeks of readying it for planting. Ingrid, lovable powerhouse that she is, obtained free vegetable seeds from Kelly’s Freeport True Value. Thanks Kelly’s! Now it’s planting time!
Michele really did try her best to give gardening lessons to these boys. And they listened. And they planted lettuce in this garden bed, maybe not exactly the depth and width the seeds prefer; however, I trust God will reward their efforts!
Bill and John helped the boys plant tomatoes, carrots and beets. June, the director, told us the children are more interested in eating their vegetables when they grow them themselves, so we ensured that the children labeled the vegetables they planted.
As we were just finishing up the planting, God sent a group of enthusiastic young people to pray over the Grand Bahama Children’s Home. They came out to see the garden and one of the boys asked if he could pray for the seeds to grow. How awesome is that! Hearing this little one praying that God will bless the garden he had spent weeks working on was the best.
In 1 Corinthians 3:6-9 Gods tells us “I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God makes things grow. The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor. For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.”
And three weeks later look how God has answered the prayer of a little boy! I see vegetables growing!
Galatians 6:9 reads, “And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up”.
I am so thankful to have been given this opportunity to join with fellow believers as co-workers with God and the work He is doing at The Grand Bahama Children’s Home. Hmmm…God’s co-worker, not a bad way to spend retirement!