This week Noah died.
It is eternally relevant that this particular 10 year old boy was loved by people around the world as a treasure worth sacrificing for. His picture has been on our kitchen wall and we have talked and prayed over his needs and triumphs since 2009 when we first 'met' him through Sarah's blog.
He needed a home , God gave Sarah and James a vision and Sarah's Covenant Homes were established, he needed love and attention so teams came from all over the place to share life with him, he needed surgeries and therapies and they were provided and in the end he needed a family that would fall on their knees before the Lord and plead that his life was precious and worth healing. That family is huge...the love and support of Noah stretches far beyond those of us who covered his daily needs or medical procedures - he was a child of the larger world. An enormous network of people that feel an abandoned, disabled child in India deserves to be loved. Even as he was laid to rest we shared the privilege of loving him - by helping provide him with a decent burial - he was not unloved or unwanted and we his larger family are trusting that he has been healed forever now....and grieving our loss of this once orphaned child.
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