Posted by Gilpin Brown, Delegate
Relationships! Pam and I continue to be impressed by the fact that this life is all about relationships. We each had serious questions as to whether we were supposed to come on this Kids Connection trip to Kazakhstan and then in the last four weeks prior to the departure date we felt the nudge to come. Now we are more than convinced that we made the right decision and that we were supposed to be in this place at this time. It’s never an easy trip for various reasons, but the love, caring and richness of the relationships we have witnessed as well as experienced first hand has, at times been overwhelming. The freedom, openness and undeserved love we have both felt with “our family”, Aben, Sholpan and their children have filled us to overflowing, sometimes even literally.
In addition to that, to see Marci and Oksana, Tom and Anna and Walter and Janet with their little girl, Lila, has shown us what a difference a caring adult can make in an orphan’s life. There were the open tears and hugging and the quiet sitting with arms around each other type of love.
Pam and I are SO thankful for this unique, powerful and rich opportunity and blessing in our lives.
