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When we take mission teams into any of our countries, we usually have sponsors with us who are eager to meet their child. It is always a special moment, but this one stands out from the rest. Pam is among the sponsors who started with us in the very beginning. I wish that I had kept a record of exactly who it was who first joined with us back in 2003, the one who was FIRST to be attached as a sponsor with a child. I do not remember. I think there were just so many tasks to be done when we first started, that now my memory blurs. But Pam was certainly one of those in the first group and what a tremendous encouragement they were. Pam and that group were the ones who first confirmed to me that a genuine ministry had been born- and in its infancy, it demanded my constant attention. Rebekah was still an infant when her sponsorship started. We have taken care of her for a long time and will probably continue until she graduates. When I wrote to her older sister that her sponsor was coming to Nepal, the reply came very quickly. "Pam Aunty is coming?" Yes. After years of writing back and forth, exchanging photos, Pam Aunty made a trip to Nepal and the two met. Sponsorship makes genuine relationships with real people and it meets real needs. We are never going to know what Rebekah's life would be if Allow and Pam had not come along. The sovereign Lord could certainly take care of her in many other ways. But I am humbly thankful that He let us be a part of it. I love this job.
