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"The King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.'"

In 1958,35 year old Englishwoman Anita Goulden went on holiday to Peru to visit her brother. Anita was a widowed, single mother who owned two haberdasheries in Manchester, England. She was about to go home by way of the United States when she saw an unbelievable sight--children with tuberculosis and meningitis lying neglected and abandoned in the street in pools of their own blood. "In my wildest dream, I had never thought of human beings in such shocking conditions," her diary recorded. "The appalling poverty; the indifference of those around. I can only liken it to visiting a store and finding all the goods priced wrongly. Precious goods worthless. Worthless goods precious."

So Anita stayed to help--for the next 44 years she stayed, only returning home one time before her death in 2002, and that trip was to buy medicine.

When Anita began her work in Piura, she started traveling by donkey to the nearby villages to find more unwanted children. Her first stop in these towns was always the pigsty, the common place for leaving physically and mentally handicapped babies with the excuse that they were of no use to their families and sent as a curse from God.

"Anita's unwavering faith in God's capacity to answer her desperate prayers for food, clothing or housing when there was none left for the children, has succeeded in providing permanent care for the most sorely afflicted and has established a good education for 250 of the poorest children from the shanties," states the Anita Goulden Trust newsletter.

Anita's Peruvian assistant said of her, "She has a direct line to God," and "Thank God for the British."
Anita herself merely said, "Thank God there is a God."

Anita understood what Jesus would be looking for on His return to earth. He would be looking for people who had cared for people-- people who really needed to be cared for.

And now she has already heard the words of King Jesus 'Come, Anita, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 'For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.'"
(Matthew 25:34-40).

Will Jesus be able to say to us what he said to Anita? "Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me."

Citation: "Anita Goulden." news.telegraph.co.uk 1/03/2002. http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/03/01/db0101.xml and "The Anita Goulden Trust Newsletter" http://www.agtrust.org/left_option/anita_goulden.htm.

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