This week we had a Samoan speaker come and he taught us about street children. He lives in Brazil and has been working with street children over there for a while. What I really liked about his teaching was how he emphasized on how much we need to rely on God and prayer while working with the street kids. He also taught us about some practical things to do when you run into situations with street kids. For example, don’t try to break up a fight when you see them fighting. He also gave a couple of testimonies that he went through while working with children at risk and put it in real perspective for me on how hard it can be at times and showed a lot of the reality while working with street kids.

This week we went to a day care and got to hang out with the kids their. It was a free day care ran for the children in the neighborhood. We had lots of fun with the kids. We got to push them on the swings which they really enjoyed and played cards with them. I could really tell that they enjoyed us being there to have new people to hang around with. At the end we got to play a little soccer with them as well.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hZxpBuPrX2vIYnBuZtCVLuNvBN6gD9E99SSO0

In this article it is talking about two girls who went missing in San Diego, California. One was fourteen years old and the other was seventeen. The seventeen year old was taken while she was going on a jog at a local park. Shortly after she was found dead at a nearby lake. A convicted sex offender was charged with her murder. The fourteen year old girl was taken while on her way to school. She has not been found yet but law enforcement is still searching for her.

Prayer Points
*For the seventeen year old girls parents to cope with her death
*For the fourteen year old to be alive
*For law enforcement to find the fourteen year old
*For the stress of the fourteen year olds parents