This week we had our teaching over skype with one of my school leaders sister. She is a school teacher of one of the inner city schools of Kansas City. Her teaching was mainly around four behaviors that kids develop. The first was “attention,” these kids are the ones in class that are always interrupting and trying to make them be a focus or distraction. The second behavior was “revenge,” these kids will be trying to start fights and be out of control. For example, throwing a chair or making threats towards other people. The third was “power,” these kids will be try to challenge your authority and will most likely try to do anything not to listen to your rules or the things you tell them to do. The fourth was “avoidance of failure,” these kids would try to do anything not to do their works and say that they can’t do it or they are not smart enough to complete the task. Along with all this she taught us how to handle each behavior and what most likely caused the kid to take on this behavior.

On Thursday and Friday we went to a facility that took care of kids with special needs. At first it was really intimidating because the woman was very who ran the place was drilling us as soon as we got there. But once we split up into groups of two and went into the rooms with two children and two teachers, it was all good. I was so surprised on how good the teachers were with the kids. It was such a great experience and I had so much fun with the kids and got a lot out of it. The kids were very blessed by having us there and we were also blessed by being there. On Friday we also got to work with Metro Ministries and a team from Las Angeles, California joined us as well and did a couple of skits, which was really awesome. This week was especially cool for me because I got to mingle with the older kids a little bit as well as the younger kids. I have been wanting to talk to them every week but it is really intimidating when my Spanish is not very good. But God blessed me and let me get my foot in the door. I have been wanting to talk to these guys every week I have been there and my heart has been for these guys as well. I have hope for these guys and believe that God is going to work in their lives.

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-47123720100322

In this article it is talking about how one hundred and forty seven children have been infected with HIV in Uzbekistan. This happened in the hospitals in Eastern part of the country. Out of these kids fourteen of them are no longer living. All this happened from not sterilizing the syringes that were used by previous patients who obviously carried HIV. Luckily twelve of the medical staff have been fired and sentenced to jail, sadly this can’t take back the kids from the HIV virus.

Prayer Points

*Medical awareness of proper sterilizing
*That the kids can cope as well as they can
*Salvation over the kids