Philippians 2:7

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We finished working at the primary school on Friday. After another lunch of peanut butter sandwiches we were invited to visit the home of one of the students. With headmistress Jane, Pastor David, the social worker Karen, and two guards left through the gate with us to escort us to the home.

We are on a muddy hillside covered with trash. From a distance it looks as if there are hundreds of boxcars without wheels side by side covering the hill. Some have a roof made of scrap metal. There are goats and barefoot children everywhere. We walk a few steps farther and one of the guards turns left. I thought he was picking something up from between two houses but he motioned for me to follow. The walkway was not wide enough for two of us to walk side-by-side. There are panels of scrap metal sheets on either side. He pulled back one of the scrap metal sheets and propped the "door" open. To my right there was just enough room between the "wall" and a pile of trash as tall as me to walk down and turn again into an unlit room. There was a little bit of grungy furnature. I went in and sat down in one of the chairs on top of some of some garbage. The whole family slept there: mother and four children (7 mths, 4,6,7). There really wasn't a roof but instead there was more wood, metal and trash overhead but you could see the sky through it so when it rains... When we were leaving we asked about the pile of garbage which included a ratty platform shoe, a plate of rotting pineapple and rice, a broken metal frame of a bed & a child's training toilet which had been used. The guard told us they were collecting the garbage and would try to sell it.

I really respected one girl on my team for her honesty later when we were talking about it. She was grieved to admit it but she said, "When I was there I felt dirty and filthy, uncomfortable and sick."

"[Jesus] made Himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men" (Phil.2:7)
We can not fathom the riches that Christ left from His Father's side in heaven to come and wash our feet.
"AMAZING LOVE
HOW CAN IT BE,
THAT THOU MY GOD
SHOULD DIE FOR ME?"