.Louis, Caleb, and Logan with their new friends... Some of the street boys...
We had another hard fought game of futbol out on the pitch... Today 4 cows joined us on the field... Only in Uganda do you share the soccer field with multiple grazing cows:).
Our sweet new friend Daniel is between the boys in this picture... He was so excited to have the new bible I gave to him yesterday... He started reading it immediately... Tonight my heart was broken thinking of the possibility of never seeing him again... Or the possibility of not seeing him in heaven...
This life is short... This is not our home... And I desperately want to see him in my forever home...
He is an amazing worshipping young man... But life on the streets is hard... 11 years on the streets, really unfathomable to me... Fighting... Sexual abuse... Running from police... Hiding from those stronger than yourself... Huffing jet fuel... Extreme hunger... Desperate poverty... This is his life... Can you imagine the fear, temptations, and willingness to do things you might never want to do for food, or to stay alive?? What a reality check for us...
I encouraged him to stay in the word... Read his bible... Attend the church near the slums... Attend the outreach program and classes and to work hard to get into the program to get off the streets. That is one of the main purposes of the feeding program... To get the boys to commit to making changes in their life and they then have homes to move them to... Our leader said he was shocked Daniel was still on the streets... He has so much potential... So much potential...
Louis even had a chance to pray with him... (So proud of him... And all the teens with us... They have stepped up and it has been awesome to witness!!)
Please pray for Daniel and the other boys... That God would draw them closer and closer to himself...
This is a great picture of where the street boys get a meal 3 times a week... Right in the slums... The smell and the amount of garbage seemedP worse this year...
Can you believe this bit of preciousness? I could just eat her up... We will see if I end up with ringworm... I gave another little boy a big hug.... Put my head right down and cuddled him up... Only to realize later that he had a really bad case of ringworm, noticeable the minute I lifted my head up... Oh well... It is so worth it to be able to love on these kids...
Pastor Dwight sharing Gods love and word with the boys... Worship was a blast with these boys today... I loved every second of it!! The boys loved the relay races our teens planned for them...
Sweet slum kids... Not a part of the feeding program... But ended up coming to the program anyways... A lot of times the kids of the slums (who do have parents) will tag right along as we walk up to the pitch where we play soccer... Then they follow us back and worship with us...technically they aren't supposed to be fed because they have families... But it is nearly impossible to not feed them...when they stare up at you with such longing in their eyes...
What a beautiful day..
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