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MY LEGACY FOUNDATION, (Home For The Orphans) (MLF)  
VISION STATEMENT
To provide a home for Orphans, with the use of all I am and with all of my spiritual gifts, my passions, my talents or abilities, my personality, my experiences and substances to the glory of the Almighty God.
My purpose is to be a father to orphans, leaving property and wealth for them.
MY TESTIMONY
On the corridor of my former school, I laid on that day. I was rushed to a friend's house near the school. During the noon meal that fateful day, said another friend, who received the phone call relating the devastating news; filled with horror and disbelief, rush to the house to found my classmate attending to me.
“What are his chances?” she asked. “I can’t say replied my mate. But I will say, we have a mess on our hands”. They left me to wait and pray in an agony of doubt for two (2) days.
It seems I had no relatives. I regained consciousness, aware of where I was and all the drugs around me, “I’m alive, I thought. But life seemed like a distant dim shaft of light falling through a crevice into a dark, dank cave. A pang of loneliness gripped me, just as it had when I went to that new school at 13 years of age. Every night I had laid down and prayed, “Christ Jesus, I can’t bear it any longer. If you love me, why don’t you take away this ache in my heart?br>
Nothing happened. Soon the salty taste of my prayers turned bitter. I started to suspect, in fact, that God's ears were the four walls and His heart was the empty space between, where I laid.
Hurt at His silence, I enacted a swift and childish revenge. I stopped praying and stopped believing that God care for me. I sometimes wondered if He even existed. Five months later, I got this feeling again, thus, no father, no mother, no brother, no sister, what am I waiting for? I tried giving up again I tried killing myself again! But then, I thought of these: I had an accident three days to my final exams but God extended the examination date. I wrote my examinations in pains and hurts, knowing not what I have written yet I passed. So I asked myself if it really were too late to trust God. He would laugh at me if I tried to pray now, I thought. I turned my back Him. Why should He take me back now? I don't deserve God’s love. Yet He had saved my life, for on the very evening all this thoughts were flooding into my mind, I remembered this verse from the Bible: “I call heaven and earth to record this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live. (Deuteronomy 30:19, KJV)
As this flashed through my mind, immediately I sensed its significance. God was calling me by name, shinning a light into the darkness and reaching down with His strong arms to pull me out. “God wants me to live I thought.
Could it be that the God I had prayed to as a child, the God who had not answered, cared for me after all? I still felt angry and hurt. I could not reconcile the God of the Bible who loves people with the God of my experience who allows them to suffer. I doubted if I could trust god when I did not understand His ways.
It was the next academic year for the Senior Secondary Schools, January 2001. it was on the 13th of February, 2001, that my thoughts were suddenly suspended in the expanse of water and sky around me. A miracle occurred, like a flash of light reflected from a ripple in water. A day when a Good Samaritan, a mother (Rev. Mrs. Eva Mensah and her family) decided to accept me and help me to attend Senior Secondary School! What is this? People I did not know anywhere? I asked.
Trust filled my being. For the first time I felt able to abandon myself to God, wholeheartedly and completely. Trust came to me as a gift. The sudden realization that broken trust is not restored through intellectual striving or emotional struggle, set me free today. From that moment my life was filled with new meaning. The thought that each life is precious to the Lord encouraged me during the months ahead. But sometimes I still battle with feelings of anger and hurt. They stuck to my heart like layers of old wallpaper and would require years of hard work to remove.
Healing was not instant. But trusting God, I started to reorganize my life later after three years of living with the Mensah family. I believe I began to mature into a nice and beautiful Christian for whom loneliness and rejections were no longer impossibilities, but situations left behind.
Occasionally, though, I still wondered why God had let me go through so much unhappiness. The nagging question I still ask, Christ Jesus, if you love me, why don’t you take away the ache in my heart? But I told myself, trust does not demand an answer to this question, but often finds the purpose in the pain. I didn't understand so many things that God was doing in my life, but three months after leaving the Mensah family, still bearing the pain of the absence of my parents, god puts me on the heart of someone of which I am glad to call a father! How wonderful, how marvelous and that was my song and shall always be! Even as my new father wrote: “No matter what happens, remember that I love you, Godsway, and that God loves you”, I whispered back to myself, you know that, Godsway, beyond a doubt.
I am thankful to God for all the people I have met in my life after these experiences.
To God be the Glory for great things He has done, He is doing and yet to do in my life.
I don't know what is impossible to you. Maybe, like me you have had troubles in life and can't believe you will ever find stability and happiness. Or maybe, your impossibility lies in a different area in work, health, age, finances or education.
Whatever it is, you are probably feeling bad about it. I was talking to a friend whose mother aged about 38, is going through a divorce after some years of marriage and three children. That good lady is struggling to survive emotionally. Finding meaning and satisfaction for the rest of her life seems to her an insurmountable impossibility.
Facing the impossible can be debilitating. It can lead to depression, produce frustration, and foster unhappiness. And the worse you feel, the more impossible your situation becomes. Dreams recede. Roads to the future are strewn with barbs. The thing you desperately want to do, to have, or to achieve remains obstinately beyond your reach.
I want you to know there is a way around the impossible. It begins with the word itself. Be careful what you call impossible because as soon as you call something impossible, you make it so. You become like a person shut in a room who says, I cannot get out, I can't get out! When all he needs to do is to push the door a little harder to find that it gives way.
That pushing consists of three things, which I call the TOP principles. TOP stands for: TRUST, ORGANIZE and PERSIST. The strategy is straightforward, and it works. I know because I have road-tested it myself. It has also worked for many people too.
TRUST God and yourself ORGANIZE yourself and persist in everything you do and I can assure you that you will be at the TOP!
REQUEST FOR FUNDS
There is nothing else apart from God, near your mission!
And this is my Vision, becoming my mission! Proving a home for Orphans is my vision and now has become my mission, a great vision that needs someone’s assistance. Someone, and you are one of them. God richly bless you for this wonderful decision of helping me. Helping me is a sure 50% accomplishment of your own mission or purpose here on this Earth!
And for the fact that I am still alive, is a great assurance that half of my purpose is already accomplished and for recognizing my purpose or mission is another 25%. Wow! 75% is already done. Please help me battle conquer the rest 25% whilst I still live, to the glory of God.
To contribute towards this Orphanage contact: maranimara@hotmail.com
Or maranimara@yahoo.com
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