One evening, the mother of a newborn and a toddler got on craigslist and saw a simple plea for diapers from the mother of a working family new to the area and in desperate financial times.
She felt she had been led to this message… and one mother’s heart responded to another’s.
They exchanged emails. When the mother arrived at the family’s doorstep with boxes of diapers in her arms, she saw a woman at the door, a loving mother just like her, worn down from the toll life can take.
The mother at the door broke down at the sight of a stranger carrying armloads of Love disguised as boxes of diapers.
Sobbing, she explained she stretched the few diapers she had by changing her daughter only after she had a bowel movement. Otherwise, the beautiful toddler at her side spent her days and nights in a soiled wet, diaper. A working family struggled daily to provide their child with not just food and a home, but the most basic hygiene need – a matter of simple human dignity.
The mother on the doorstep replied gently, “I’m here because God loves you. And, you are not alone.”
Two mothers. One, relieved and grateful, changed her baby with a fresh diaper that night and put her to bed clean and dry for the first time in a long while. The other mother left that home, humbled, saddened and wondering. There is a powerful need here. How can we serve?
She got back on craigslist and was led to another message, posted from a family new to the United States hoping to buy unused diapers – anything cheaper than the store. She and her husband met this family at a gas station. As her husband got out of the car with boxes of diapers to give them, the father in need saw the Ichthys, the Christian symbol, on their car.
“You may not want to give these to us. We are of another faith.” Her husband smiled and assured him, “That makes no difference. Please understand, God commands us to love all of His children.” Tears streaming down his face, the father said he had never been treated so kindly in this country before.
Two fathers, both with a heart for the well-being of their children, were changed forever by a Divine encounter orchestrated by the same Father.
God purposed a larger mission from these encounters. Prayers were answered quickly as they realized there was a way to not only change diapers, but to change lives.
The ministry of diaperLove was born, a big-hearted vision only God could create to supply diapers to any child, to every child in need – Sharing God’s Love one dry behind at a time.
When it comes to finding a way to care for His children, God’s Love covers it.
