Today started out in a very beautiful fashion!!! ------Just to let you know - we have this type of beauty out here a LOT!!! :-) Also -- a better picture of the Detention Center.
At our noon meal our devotions were on Romans 12:9-21.....some really hard things to hear-----"love those who persecute you"..... But we felt that it would be a good place to start with the kids at the JDC.....Not directing this passage at them necessarily but that the Bible is full of directions for us on how we are to live our life for God. And so we headed back to the JDC with a little bit of a direction for our visit with the kids that have prayed to receive Christ. When we arrived we gave the guard a list of the people we wanted to see. He took it and left ....but then came right back. "You want to see a guard??!!" Well, yes we did. But unfortunately he was not working that shift. But we had to laugh at his response. Two of the kids were no longer there....Tiana and Nicole. But we were able to see the other 4. After seeing some of them several times they are much more open with us....not that they share a lot about themselves but it just seems like they feel more comfortable with us....we get a lot more smiles! We had told the kids it would be good if they would begin reading the Bible in the book of John. Jalynn had read to chapter 8 and Robert had read to chapter 15.......he said "I just kept going". He also said that he was in a part that was about "how to live". Cheyenne and Lelana were still not real comfortable with us it seemed.
We might not get to see these kids again. We will miss 2 weeks with them while we go home to Michigan. But we did get several of their addresses and so hope to communicate with them in that way.
Thank you for keeping these young people in your prayers. :-) See some of you real soon!!
Love to all! Gary and Barb
1 comment:
Hi Peters!
It was good to see both of you and hear about your work there. I'm so excited about what God is doing through you. I remember when I helped with the kids at Life Skills that I would always wonder if I would see those kids again as some would not keep coming. It helped me to make the most of each time I had with them.
What a precious grandson you have and how special that you could be there for his baptism.
I'm praying tonight for your safe return.
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