Dear Mrs Gilley & The Bruce Gilley Memorial Foundation Supporters,
Thank You for Your Support:
I want to thank you SO much again for supporting me on my mission trip! This trip was a crazy and amazing adventure and you were a big help in getting me to INDIA. God planned this trip and I was meant to go on it, it has impacted my life and the lives of the other people on the team.
Our team of 17 flew to Aizwal, India and served in Hermon’s Children’s Home March 10-17, 2018. The home has 57 children that range in age from about 4 years old to college age. These kids are orphans. Some have parents who have died, some were abandoned, and some were taken out of their homes because the parents couldn’t take care of them.
Beautiful & Loved!
During the week, we did VBS style activities such as Bible story time, crafts, music, and games. The kids loved all the activities and happily participated. We also had a special time for the older girls where we polished their nails, curled their hair, and put a little makeup them. We took a picture of them and placed it in a frame they had decorated. I helped curl their hair which was so much fun. Three of our team members then shared how they were so beautiful and loved by God. God allowed me to help break down the wall with the older boys by playing soccer and volleyball them. They were very shy and didn’t seem comfortable interacting with us until we started playing sports together. Called to Go!
I really believe that was one of the major reasons I was called to go to India. At the end of the week, two of the older boys accepted Christ. This was so exciting! This has been a life changing, heart wrenching, revealing, and amazing trip. I saw how God’s love was stretched around the whole entire world and that He is with us, just as much as He is with those kids. I had an expectation of what this trip would be like. This trip..the country of India..the kids..exceeded my expectations to the point where I was in awe. In awe of how God made such beautiful, loving, and compassionate people and somehow cross our paths with theirs.
Your Help Enables Young People to Go
None of this would’ve been possible without YOUR help and support. I can not thank you enough for the help you’ve given me. I would trade the world to be with the kids, one more day…one more hour… even one more minute. I have been so impacted by everything I’ve experienced and I don’t know where my heart would be without this mission trip. I have the hardest time explaining the amazing and life changing adventure I had the chance to partake in. All I want is:to see them again. See them laugh, see them play, see them full of joy and happiness… I was able to witness this in the first place because of the help and money you gave me. God is calling me to India and I will return, fearless because God’s got the whole world in His hands. My brief words about this trip can not do justice for what my heart feels and longs for. Nothing is going to keep me from doing mission work because God is within me, and I will not fail.
Thank you for making my trip possible. It is one of the greatest things I have experience in my life! I have you to thank for supporting me, so BIG thank you for everything you’ve done for me.
– Gracie
