"Spiritual Moms and Dads for Stella's House" by Philip Cameron
We sat in Stella’s House looking at ten young girls whose lives were about to change. Our own girls had been busy preparing sandwiches and other treats for the girls from the orphanage in Leova.
I wish you could have been there to watch Constantia and Marina and Natalie and Liuda proudly walk around Stella's House, telling the girls about what hope can give... what help can give... what Jesus can give!
It is one of the most moving things I’ve ever witnessed. Chrissie and I didn't have to speak. Our Moldovan "daughters" were witnessing and testifying to what Stella's House can do.
When you take steps of faith as we have done, launched ridiculous efforts to save these precious souls, there are times in the night when I lie awake staring at the ceiling and honestly question my sanity.
Then there are the miraculous moments where the harvest from your seed blossoms before your eyes. When every whispered prayer, every word of fatherly advice, every bulwark of security comes together, and every doubt is replaced with delight. That is how it was last Tuesday at Stella’s House 1.
Now we are back in America, and some of the girls from Stella’s House are here with us for the summer. Others are waiting for their final school exams to finish before they travel here. Yesterday in church I sat and wept as the girls who are here performed a human video to the song, “Now Behold the Lamb.”
These girls, some who had never heard of Jesus a year ago, literally had their hands up weeping and praising Him. There has never been a father at any performance in the world, whose heart beat with more pride than mine did yesterday.
I am so grateful for the care and concern that so many have shown. I'm grateful for every letter telling us people were praying, every dollar given in His name to help these precious souls.
I look towards the end of summer racing towards me at a breakneck pace, and I need your prayers for two main concerns we still have... First, we still need to finish and furnish Stella’s House 2.
The collapse in the value of the US dollar and the resulting 40% inflation in our costs means that construction costs have gone up precipitously, and some things remain unfinished. BUT HERE’S WHAT KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT... In Moldova, gas is six dollars a gallon, food is a third higher, clothing prices are fifty percent higher. We must believe God for the ongoing support of Stella's House 2 before it can open.
All through the summer we will be trying to get orphan girls into schools that normally would never allow them in, because they have no voice. In the middle of August, they will move to Stella's House 2 and we do not have the funds to support them yet.
I have been so busy building the building that I have not had the time to find its support. Up until now, we have received gifts, supplemented by giving during my visits to churches. But this year already, I have spent nine weeks in Moldova, and as our responsibility there grows, I do not see spending less time there... only more.
So, our second priority is to find an army of support, spiritual moms and dads for the girls of Stella’s House 1 and 2, who will commit to give every month, to keep these girls away from the hands of vile men and allow us to form them into women of God.
I know it is the height of summer, and many are on vacation, and perhaps the last thing on your mind is orphan girls in Moldova. But I only have a very few short weeks to seek God for a miracle of supply.
Will you pray with me that God will speak to people all over America? Pray that enough people will take up the challenge and become spiritual moms and dads for the girls of Stella's House... and make sure we can open Stella's House 2 on a secure footing right from the start.
Ask God if you should be part of this army of support. Right now, hope is rising in a young Moldovan girl's heart, who, even as you read this email, is daring to dream beyond hunger and want.
I know you care. And I thank you for your love.
In His love,
Philip Cameron
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