As many of you know I, Kara, have a heart for orphans in Ethiopia and have been working to help Yezelalem Minch. Recently, my heart has been drawn to help a special lady in South Aftica named Julia Oconnell who recently started a school for orphans and takes care of sick HIV children there. She is a widow with 2 biological children and a 19 year old foster son that she raised since she found him at around. This son, Joshua, helps her care for orphans. Through our many communications on facebook, I have come to beleive that she has a heart of Gold and wants only to help "THE LEAST OF THESE". This blog is to share her story and her mission. I hope you will follow their ministry and help spread the word about her love and care for orphans in South Africa.
Julia Oconnell founded of the House of the Mustard Seed and works with 3 missionaries from Mountain Ministries. She was born in South Africa and felt such a passion for helping mend what apartheid has done. She has worked for Refilwe as a Community Deveopment Coordinator doing evangelization, HIV testing, primary care and fostering. Feeling a tug from the Holy Spirit, she ahs been lead to live among the poorest of the poor with the highest number of HIV patients in Qwa Qwa, South Africa. Three months ago,she also started a school that has 60 children, 30 of which are sick with HIV. They hope to having plumbing put into their village soon.
This may sound horrible to you but they are living out of black plastic bags because they can't afford furniture. A local church gives them $125 a month but that is just not enough. Can you imagine living off $125 month while raising helping 60 children of children.
Jesus appeared to her in a vision in 1986 when she was a young girl asking her to be simple in my Christian walk. This is what she tries to do each and every day through her love and care of the orphans of Qwa Qwa.
