This is Sindi Mngometulu’s story, one of the Savior King’s precious baby girls. Both her earthly parents have died and her 25-year-old brother is in charge of taking care of the family: a 9-year-old sister, a 7-year-old brother, and 4-year-old Sindie.

Sindi was sleeping next to the fire one cold winter night when her jacket caught on fire. Not only did she receive 2nd and 3rd degree burns on her shoulder and right arm, her leg was also badly burned when pieces of her jacket melted and dropped onto her leg. Her siblings were able to get her to a hospital where they were able to clean her wounds. The hospital sent them home that same night with nothing to care for her burns or to sooth her pain.

After the weekend had passed, Jessie, Children’s Cup’s nurse, received a call from the CarePoint teachers at Murray Camp that Sindi needed medical care.

Before she could be seen Sindi wet her pants. A visiting volunteer with a missions team from America compassionately cleaned her up and miraculously found clean clothes in the clinic for her to wear. An over sized t-shirt was ripped and tied around her arm to prevent the burns from being touched and a flannel vest was found to keep her upper body warm on the cold winter day.

Sindi cried into the volunteer’s chest as the nurse Jessie dressed her burns. Jessie and the volunteer sang worship songs in SiSwati to help distract, reassure, and comfort Sindie through her pain and anxiety. When Sindie’s wounds where dressed, she was driven back to her homestead in Murray Camp.

The Children’s Cup medical ministry continued to care for Sindie weekly by checking on her healing burns and instructing the teachers at Murray Camp to dress her wounds.

With continuous care and by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, Sindie’s burns have healed with no infections and minimal scarring. The scars from the burns that encircled her arm have healed so well that she has full function of her arm. You can find Sindie now at Murray Camp CarePoint playing, laughing, and smiling.

This precious one, a princess in the eyes of the Lord, has been cared for by the Almighty. All glory and honor and praise are His!

Psalms 10:17-18 You hear, O LORD, the desire of the afflicted; You encourage them, and You listen to their cry, defending the fatherless and the oppressed, in order that man, who is of the earth, may terrify no more.