Morley Update 2011 #15

Everyone,

I am not feeling very creative today and have a VERY busy few weeks ahead so this will be short and hopefully sweet. Saturday I worked in the kids room. I am finding that I am picking up more and more Farsi words which is a big help. Late in the day when most of the kids had gone "N" and her children came in. They are a nice family with 2 boys and 2 girls and speak pretty good English. You may remember I wrote about their youngest who is about 5. She was hit by a car and broke her leg quite severely. At the hospital they put her in a cast from foot to hip and after a couple of days sent her "home". They were living in the park with nowhere to lay her comfortably or to elevate her leg. They would bring her in to the ARC in a small umbrella stroller which did not give her any support. Amazingly her leg has healed completely and it is a joy to see her running and jumping like any child. On this day "N" had been across the street to get food. At 3pm and 6pm there is a group that passes out packaged hot food in the park across from us. When they first started it was a near riot with people pushing and shoving and fighting to get in the gate. Now they have a system that looks a bit like pictures you see of herding cattle into chutes in the wild west. They have ropes set up and the mass of people are herded through and as the path narrows they are handed their sack of food and moved along. It actually works well but there is no place for them to sit and eat or rest. Since we are open from 12-4 many people leave at 3 to get food and come back upstairs to eat it. Today the food was a dish of rice and cabbage. It didn't look bad but it didn't look particularly good either. "N's" boy who is about 10 shoveled his in quickly making sure to get every grain of rice. He asked for more but his mom told him no. The oldest girl tasted hers and obviously didn't like it very well but picked out the cabbage and ate the rest. The youngest girl took a few bites and then as 5 years old will do was more interested in running around. She would run off and then back to her mother who would shove a bite in her mouth and then off she would go again - amazingly she finished most of her dish. "N" ate the cabbage left from her older daughte'sr bowl and saved the other packages to take home. She said "it is very hard, this food is not good (she meant nutritious). My older son is hungry all the time. We have not had meat in months and at times we have gone for over a week with nothing." They live in a "house" with a little water but no electricity. I asked if she had a way to cook and she said "I have a small burner but it is not good for cooking much". They tried to leave Greece a little over a month ago but were caught and sent back after a pretty traumatic boat trip. I can tell that she is very discouraged. I hope to find a chance to have their family over for dinner soon. Please pray for them.

Kent is still meeting regularly with one guy for English and has met several other men he enjoys talking too. He is still co-teaching the New Believers class and is helping to start a discussion group on John for believers and seekers after Tea House on Saturdays. He preached for the Farsi outreach on Tuesday with Nader translating and will do so again on Friday.

We have quite a few people coming to help at work right now. We are getting more Greek volunteers and also people coming for short term missions work. Heather and Chris, who are an engaged couple planning to come full time in a year, arrived on Monday for the summer. Kent and I will be meeting with them regularly to do some marriage stuff and just seeing how they are doing. On Tuesday we welcomed Emily an intern from Moody Bible Institute who will be staying with us and serving here for the next 6 weeks. Today I need to get my laiki shopping done and then head to the airport to pick up Nicola an English University Student who will be staying with Tasha and Christy and serving for 3 1/2 weeks. Next Tuesday we get another Moody intern Lauren who will also be staying with us for 6 weeks. We also have a team coming in on the 10th to help with our family camp so we will have a guy on our couch for a few days. In between all this Kent and I are having our lung xrays and finishing up the things we need to do to get our resident permit again plus our year end taxes for Greece etc. CRAZY!

In the midst of the craziness we see God's hand at work. While we were home some of you heard Kent preach about the man who came to Jesus in a FIAT. He demonstrated how a man on a stretcher could not come to Jesus alone but needed to be carried by a FIAT (Faith In Action Team). We are so thankful that those of you who support us financially and in prayer are holding the other corners of the stretcher. We could not do it without you. We love you all.

Serving Him Together,
Kent and Myrna Morley
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