Charles and Sherwin
Shevet Achim volunteers come from different islands, countries, and continents, but at our core is love. I did not understand love until I spent two and half months volunteering with Shevet, and I wouldn't trade the genuineness and authentic love that was shared with me for anything. That is who Christ is. He is not in lip service. He is in waking up at 5:30am to go to a catheterization. He is in laughter at accidentally giving the Mom's two kilos of boneless chicken breasts. He is in holding a mother as she is shaking during her son's open heart surgery. That is God.
Maya Angelou has a quote that says, "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you do, but people will never forget how you made them feel." That is Shevet Achim. The days and nights with the mothers and the children were memorable. There are some kids that I fell in love with very quickly and some that were hesitant. The mothers, the same. Since the mothers do not speak our languages and we do not speak theirs with great fluency, a lot of our interaction is nonverbal. It is easy to fake verbal love, but nonverbal love requires a genuineness of the Spirit.