CHILDREN'S CITY (MAY)
Our children and adolescents from the CHILDREN’S CITY are like other children and adolescents, they like to play, run and sometimes they are mischievous. With so many children in the same place, the problems accumulate and appear bigger.
In the midst of the games, running and mischief, I like to hug these small children and the boys and girls (some already adolescents or entering their adolescence) that we care for in the CHILDREN’S CITY. Some are more courageous; they come and hug me, kiss me and talk to me.
One of them almost every time we meet asks me, when are you going to build a doghouse? We want to build a kennel so they can have some dogs to play with. We still have not built it, but it is part of our program, we want to have other animals in the CHILDREN’S CITY too.
What impresses me about these children is the joy on their faces and the degree of hope they have. When I think about their origin, I realise that this reveals a profound change in their lives. The majority of them come from broken homes, from families impoverished through sin, through vice and through immoral values. Some of them do not know their fathers, as they are children of single mothers who sometimes have children by two or more men. Others have lost their fathers or mothers, or both, sometimes violently. Still others have a father or mother in prison, or their mother is in prostitution so she can survive.
Stories that are very sad, stories of poverty, lack of family, lack of school, lack of orientation lack of everything. They usually arrive in a very bad way, sad, without hope, without prospects. Have you lived with a sad child without hope? It is a desolate picture, but then in a little time they start to change. The environment helps, the big playground gives them a safe place to play and the people who care for them are Christians who do their work with love and with their heart. Over everything, the Holy Spirit works in their hearts as a response to prayer.
The Valley of Blessing is especially a place of prayer. In our Prayer Centre we have a Permanent Prayer Vigil, 24 hours a day every day, all day and all night. As well as this, we have campaigns and we continually have special programs of prayer. The Holy Spirit has come and is working wonderfully in the various areas of the Valley of Blessing and in the children and adolescents that we care for.
For them our prayers continue. We do not want to give them just food, clothes and school, we want to give them much more than this. We continually pray that the Holy Spirit will teach us and help us to bless these children in such a way that they will be transformed by the power of God, and praise the Lord this is happening.
I delight in this because it is a big challenge for me and when I realise that the grace of God is working in these lives bringing joy, hope and salvation I am very happy too.
In the midst of the games, running and mischief, I like to hug these small children and the boys and girls (some already adolescents or entering their adolescence) that we care for in the CHILDREN’S CITY. Some are more courageous; they come and hug me, kiss me and talk to me.
One of them almost every time we meet asks me, when are you going to build a doghouse? We want to build a kennel so they can have some dogs to play with. We still have not built it, but it is part of our program, we want to have other animals in the CHILDREN’S CITY too.
What impresses me about these children is the joy on their faces and the degree of hope they have. When I think about their origin, I realise that this reveals a profound change in their lives. The majority of them come from broken homes, from families impoverished through sin, through vice and through immoral values. Some of them do not know their fathers, as they are children of single mothers who sometimes have children by two or more men. Others have lost their fathers or mothers, or both, sometimes violently. Still others have a father or mother in prison, or their mother is in prostitution so she can survive.
Stories that are very sad, stories of poverty, lack of family, lack of school, lack of orientation lack of everything. They usually arrive in a very bad way, sad, without hope, without prospects. Have you lived with a sad child without hope? It is a desolate picture, but then in a little time they start to change. The environment helps, the big playground gives them a safe place to play and the people who care for them are Christians who do their work with love and with their heart. Over everything, the Holy Spirit works in their hearts as a response to prayer.
The Valley of Blessing is especially a place of prayer. In our Prayer Centre we have a Permanent Prayer Vigil, 24 hours a day every day, all day and all night. As well as this, we have campaigns and we continually have special programs of prayer. The Holy Spirit has come and is working wonderfully in the various areas of the Valley of Blessing and in the children and adolescents that we care for.
For them our prayers continue. We do not want to give them just food, clothes and school, we want to give them much more than this. We continually pray that the Holy Spirit will teach us and help us to bless these children in such a way that they will be transformed by the power of God, and praise the Lord this is happening.
I delight in this because it is a big challenge for me and when I realise that the grace of God is working in these lives bringing joy, hope and salvation I am very happy too.
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