This trip we had planned ahead of time for me to get to meet with the street boys for about half of the time I was here. We are two weeks into our trip today and I haven't met with the street boys once because for all of you who don't know, things never go as planned in Kenya. As frustrated as I was tonight I started thinking deeper about it and realized maybe that's what I wanted for this trip but that's not what GOD wanted for this trip. Maybe all along He had in mind that I would gather information, research, etc. about what it means to be a missionary and to actually run a home that houses orphan children. I've been to a couple of different homes now: the Nakuru Children's Remand Home, Okoa Mtoto (street boy holding facility), and a girls probation center. At each place I have been able to see what works and what doesn't work and unfortunately for one place nothing is really working. I have learned that for me success is not measured in the number of street boys that come through and leave but getting to see each boy change, grow up and be free from their former lifestyle.
Tomorrow I get to actually meet with a group of street boys, well if all goes as planned. Another obstacle that has been in the way that I forgot to mention is the Government just recently did a "clean up" of the streets and tried to get all of the street boys off of the streets which at first I thought was encouraging and later I realized where some of them have gone and it's not so great. Point being that it's been way harder to meet with them because many of them don't hang out in the town as much because they're afraid of getting caught. Hopefully tomorrow goes well and I get to meet with them again on this trip, but I'm giving it all to God now because it just doesn't work when I try and do it on my own.
P.S. Prayers are always appreciated because working with street boys is never easy and not always the safest work out there.
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