Street Kids
05/08/26 09:57
Faby is a natural for evangelism. Here in our park, we talk with many of the alcoholics. But our health limits us. Faby spends a lot of time resting. So while I accompany her, I've taken on reading some books about street kids:
"When Invisible Children Sing" by Dr. Chi Huang. He was a medical student at Harvard and traveled to La Paz, Bolivia to work in an orphanage. But at nights he would hit the streets and work with street kids into the wee hours of the morning.
"Nobody Don't Love Nobody" by Stacy Bess. She landed her first job as a teacher in Salt Lake City in a shelter for the homeless and taught all six elementary grades at once in very limited conditions.
"Breaking Night" by Liz Murray. While the first two books described working with street children, this author details her life as one of those kids, growing up in Bronx, New York. Her parents were drugs addicts and could barely, if at all, care for her.
These books give me a better understanding of the life of street kids. I don't know if we'll ever be able to work with such, but the few alcoholics in our park have some similarities. My application is to listen to their stories to better understand their situation. In most cases, the recovery period is a long process.