Well I have been here in Belo Horizonte for 5 days now!
We have been cleaning up and setting up the outreach house
for the last few days. There has been construction going on here.
The house of rock where I am staying is in a one of the biggest slums in Belo Horizonte.
The city has about 3 million people in it. What we have been setting up for is children and youth who come to daily programs we put on in the morning and afternoon. These children live in dangerous neighborhood and come from poor families and broken homes.
I went on a visit to meet locals and there children the other day in the favala (slum).
This weekend I will be going with a team to another city an hour or 2 away, where we will be ministering and sharing the great news of Jesus! at a country wide festival called the Carnivel.
So this should be a great experience.
I have some friends at the base who speak English and Portuguese.
Its great cause I am learning Portuguese and I can communicate to locals with them.
The other night Chiago, Helen (staff/ friends) and myself went out to a spot in the city where street kids congrigate. We met up with another group of Ywamer's.
They go down there to play soccer with the kids and minister to them.
Helen and I met a little boy there named Lucas. He looked like he was about 9 or 10 years old but he told us he was 12. The kids were sniffing paint thinner to get high and forget there problems of living on the street. Helen and I began to talk to Lucas and ask him what he likes to do for fun and what his dreams in life were.
He said He wanted to learn in school and one day be married and have a house. We ask him if he
wanted to live with christian people who would love him and take care of him.
He said yes. This was a very moving experience for the three of us and we let him know that we would visit him and help him to get off the street.
A lot of the kids run away from home because of abuse.
I really felt that God had a purpose for us to meet Lucas.
And it gave me a glimpse of how God wants to bring deliverance and love to so many kids just like Lucas on the streets of Brazil and all over the World!
Thanks for reading and may God bless you with His Grace and Love.
In Christ Jesus