Hot sunny days can be good. As long as
you’re in the shade that is. But if you’re playing soccer in the
middle of the day, even if you’re in the shade, prepare to be
exhausted.
I was not playing soccer. Alex’s boys
were, with other high school boys during their PE time.
While we were watching the boys play,
Alex states (in between cheers for the boys making goals) “I feel
like it’s very good for them to be around other kids, I also feel
like it’s good for these high school boys to be around them too, just
because you go to a posh school and they don’t and just cause these
boys grew up in a mountain village and have the type of job they do
now does not mean you have to shun them. People need to be
accepting.”
We were able to tour the RCP center
that they have for the next year. Alex can only do a lease for a
year at a time because they will have so many more boys come within
that year that they will be busting at the seams by the time next
winter hits.
Its amazing all the dreams she has for
these boys. Outside of teaching them English and some basic life
skill classes, she wants to some day in the near future have a garden
for them and teach them that if you give things a lil love and care,
they can grow. She also wants to take them to volunteer at a center
here in the city so that it’s not all about, “them getting and
getting and getting”, she wants them to give back.
After all of her accomplishments, the
thing that still amazes me the most about her is her character.
Nobody really inspires me like her. She lives what she speaks, and
she speaks so kindly. It rubs off on the boys.
Twenty-two boys come to the center.
They are the best. They are so respectful and kind. I seriously
haven’t been able to get their faces out of my head since I met them.
They were somehow able to access parts of my heart that I did not
know I had.
Please keep these precious boys and RCP
in your prayers. There are so many amazing things taking place in
their hearts and at this center!
