Month 11. Woah. Where the heck did the time go? I feel like I was just sweating my life away in Africa month 1. El Salvador has been such a sweet way to end this beautiful chapter that God provided for me to grow closer to Him. The weather has been beautiful, our hosts have been incredible, and the pupusas have lived up to all the hype.
This month my team and I have been living in San Salvador, the capital city of El Salvador. We have been working with YWAM El Salvador. It has been incredible to work alongside them in the ministries they have established out here. The main ministry they have is called the King’s Table, which happens about four times a week in one of the local communities. The King’s Table is a program that is designed to provide and teach the value of a healthy meal and hygiene. King’s table provides one balanced meal and hygiene essentials for the kids of the community. Each meal costs 10 cents to teach the kids that they should value the meal and that in life you can’t just be handed things. The King’s Table also teaches the kids to wash their hands and provide the essentials needed for them to properly brush their teeth after each meal as well.
YWAM is also invested in the adults of the community and put on a service for them once a week in the evenings. They also go out once a week to the local universities and hospitals and do evangelism. My team and I have been blessed to work alongside them in all of these ministries, as well as doing maintenance and manual labor work around the YWAM base.
As many of you probably know El Salvador is well known for its large gang population. This month the Lord has really put it on my heart to pray for the gang members. A lot of the young men that get involved in the gangs typically come from broken homes and a lot of them are missing a fatherly figure. They typically join the gangs at a young age, because the gangs provide that fatherly figure in a really twisted way, that they have been missing, instead of turning to our heavenly father to fill it. I have lost my dad and know what its like first hand to not have that fatherly role filled anymore, and I myself have tried to find it in men before truly seeking it out in the Lord. I really feel a need to be praying that people are bold enough to reach out and share the truth with them, and that the Lord would reveal himself to these young men as their true father.
