God of this City

While I was at the baby center in October, I would randomly listen to my ipod at night and just shuffle through the songs. 3 or 4 songs was usually my max for a night...I had to ration my ipod battery haha. I remember one night I was listening and the song "God of this City" by Chris Tomlin started to play. I thought back to how much I enjoyed singing this song back home. Then I listened to the lyrics:

You're the God of this city
You're the King of these people
You're the Lord of this nation

You're the light in this darkness
You're the hope to the hopeless
You're the peace to the restless

There is no one like our God

For greater things have yet to come
And greater things are still to be done in this city

I listened to every line and thought every line through, but through different eyes. I had seen this town and the towns around the baby center. Every line had a meaning and fit perfectly in everything I had seen. I think that God definitely has greater things to come in the towns surrounding the baby center and the AGC church.

This is my rewrite of this song:

You're the God of Salgaa, Nakuru, and Ngata
You're the King of the people that live here and the babies that are orphaned here
You're the Lord of all Kenya

You're the light in the middle of the night when these former commercial sex workers sell their food and other goods they've made, To the truckers that park along the streets of Salgaa for the women.
You're the hope to the women who've traded their lives of sin in for a job that will raise a family without compromising their relationship with you. You're the hope to the children who don't have a mom and dad to tuck them in at night and tell them they love them.
You're the peace to the women who have turned their lives around when they face the hard decision of going back to the lifestyle of prostitution. You're the peace to the workers at the baby center who get worn out from taking care of the babies all day.

There is no one like our God...You know that all of these children will one day have a place to call home. You know every person who has nothing and is doing everything they can to survive. You know every one of the women in Salgaa.

For greater things are yet to come and are yet to happen in this part of the world.
You have so much more planned here and you're allowing me to be a tiny part of it. How incredible! You have planted an amazing church, and placed a pastor in it who loves you with all he has.



I'm so passionate about the AGC baby center and the people God has placed in the towns around it. Isn't it amazing how we can say "no way, absolutely not" and God has completely different plans. I never thought in a million years that I would want to go to Africa and spend my days with the children and people at the baby center. Know it's all I think about. I absolutely cannot wait to get back. The application process is going well. The plan is to go sometime between May and July. Pray that everything will work out with WGM. God knows what he's doing and he knows exactly what will happen. I can't wait to see what he has in store!