Please join me...

This blog is a news feed, but forgive me if tonight I need it to share some more difficult thoughts. We have started this week praying every day to be useful and with Heather here, we have been able to offer a time for kids to share some more personal physical ailments.

So far Heather has been dealing with the usual cuts and scrapes, but also fungal infections, and STDs that I thought disappeared a long time ago. It's been so good to be able to offer this so that kids can put their minds at rest and also receive treatment in confidence.

We are in our last week of working with the MEFI ministry and even now if amazes us how kids open up and share a little of their stories. There has been a common story this week with kids who have talked about what has led them to be living on the streets. A separation of parents, a mother's new boyfriend, and then physical abuse, resulting in kids running away from their families. It's hard to imagine, but some are 9 and 10 years old when they do that.

One kid this week broke down in tears as he told me that he had been sold by his parents when he was 7, and they had come to find him last week and asked for his forgiveness. He had never finished his primary school studies and couldn't really read. Now he is 24 and involved in prostitution. (There are a few kids who are involved in prostitution who are at the drop in centre at the moment.) He wasn't sure if he could trust his parents again.

What a privilege it is to be allowed into the world of street kids in Mexico City, to be trusted to hear of their hurts, and listen, and shoulder pain, and take it to God in prayer. I need to do a lot of that tonight. Please join me...