I knew from the first day on the streets with Matt that I needed to impact the lives of the street kids and just love them. I new I couldn’t feed them all, all I could do is show them God’s love. So Joe came up with a plan. The plan was to talk to the locals and shop owners and figure out what we can do for these kids. Check out Joe Bunting’s blog to find out more about his heart and vision.
So with a small team of 3 we went out. Asking shop owners about the street kids. ( I felt like a journalist, I asked the questions and Joe wrote them down). I asked everything I could to find out, anything I could. I didnt hold back. I opened a place in my heart that has never been open. In a week we new personally about 15 street kids, found out there stories and listened to them. I don’t even know where to begin with what I know about the street boys. Most of these kids have had to fight for everything that they have.. They do glue not only to help with there hungry pains but to make them feel strong like they could take on anything. They are on the streets for many reasons, some are one the streets because they have nowhere else to go, but some see it as there job, they go out there all day to get food or money and bring it home to a drunken mother who has lost everything. Its sad, you never see anyone older than 30, they spend years on the streets only to die on the streets.
I love hugging them, they run up to me with a great big smiles and they know how to greet me with a great big hug. Hugging them does something to my soul.
Everytime I talk about my boys I feel like they were ministrering to me instead of the other way around. I’m the one that is supposed to be changing peoples life but every time I meet someone that I think “Oh they need Jesus,” it just turns out they teaching me a lesson. I never knew how many people just wanted someone to talk to. If every time I went out and just loved and listen, I think that would change people lives more then telling them they are sinners and if you don’t change you are going to hell.
