Once a month we host a youth fellowship at Esther's House in conjunction with Alcance Victoria SS GANG (God's Anointed Now Generation).  I am generally in charge of games and refreshments.  This morning I woke up at 6:00AM (not an easy thing for me on a Saturday morning) and began to fill 500 water balloons.  As I began to fill the balloons one at a time I looked at the pile of unfilled balloons in front of me.  It seemed like I would never fill all of the balloons.  No matter how many balloons I took to fill my pile of empty balloons did not seem to get any smaller.  
I began to think about a conversation that I had with Kathy Fournier, Director of Esther's  Heart Ministry.  When we were considering opening Esther's House I spent a lot of time talking to a lot of teens and young mothers who were either in government centers or living on the street.  I selected 3 young mothers and their 3 children and began the work to get them out of the government centers they were in and into Esther's House.  I visited one center where there were about 150 teens sitting.  I don't know what they were in the room for, but everyone of them had a hopeless depressed look on their face.  I was there to visit one mother and her son.  I became overwhelmed and I called Kathy that night in tears.  How can we only help 6 children when so many need help?  Just like the pile of balloons, I knew that even if i took these two children out of the center there were still so many more that needed our help.  As we talked Kathy said "We help the ones that we can.  We know we won't ever touch every child's life, but we help them one by one".  
One by one I kept filling balloons.  One by one we keep helping children.  We have 11 in Esther's House now.  We have 10 children sponsored through our sponsor program.  We work with about 15 more youth as we partner with Alcance Victoria.  One by one we are making a difference.