After living here for a month now my perspective has changed immensely. French has been both a challenge and a joy, a stress and an adventure a complete frustration and a huge time of growth. Everyday I walk past the same guy sitting on the bench who knows 6 words in english; "how are you, I am fine." The same baby playing in a bucket of water behind the peanut stand, the same man laying beside the bench because he does not have the means to support himself, and everyday my heart breaks more and more for these people. Through the frustration I am humbled by the beauty of what an honor I have to serve here.
Here are just a few photos of what is happening here :
This is how dark it gets when a rain storm is coming in, first we experience a dust storm and then this, keep in mind this is at about 1pm.
A little decor being added to my very bland and stark white walled room :)
My new curtains and sheet (aka, a tablecloth) it may not match but it lights up the room!
The other day I had the opportunity to visit a ministry site here called Pan-Bila. Pan bila is a center for street boys and women to come and receive food, education, and the Gospel. Their primary ministry is taking these pregnant women and young boys off the street and attempting to negotiate with their families to allow them to come home. These women are abondaned because of pregnancy and these boys run away due to the fact that they are being sent to Muslim school and will be beaten and tortured immensely. Pan Bila has had about 150 boys this year and 60 women.
A little baby whose mother lives here at Pan Bila!
The Women's housing. The missionaries here belive that if you provide luxury for these people they will never leave, never return home so they live simply as they would if they were nto on the streets.
How can you help Pan-Bila?
-Pray for Pan Bila, that these women and boy's hearts would be opened to the Gospel.
-Pray for interns, interns are their primary source of finances and they no longer have any.
-Pray for financial support, that they would recieve exactly what they need to make it from one month to the next.
-Give, support them in providing finances for their food distribution ministry.
-Pray for Pan Bila, that these women and boy's hearts would be opened to the Gospel.
-Pray for interns, interns are their primary source of finances and they no longer have any.
-Pray for financial support, that they would recieve exactly what they need to make it from one month to the next.
-Give, support them in providing finances for their food distribution ministry.
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