David and I would greatly appreciate your
prayers for a boy named Moses that is a street child in our programs. We know
that God wants him in our home. Today, the day before we were going to bring
him in into our home a friend of ours, Heidi got a random call from his dad
(who she does not know at all) saying he was coming to Kivulu to get his
son.
Moses dad is an evil, evil man. Moses ran
away from his father because he was going to sacrifice him (cut off his head
and other body parts in order to get "power") at one of his shrines.
As soon as David heard his father was coming to Kivulu to "get his son" David raced to the slum where Moses was staying to
find him before his father did. He located him and took him out to eat. It is generally known by the other kids why Moses is on the street but David felt he needed to talk to him before doing anything next.
Sobbing the entire time, Moses told David of
his father, (who was in jail for two years for murdering someone) about how he
uses cocaine, does witchcraft, has many shrines, beats mercilessly him and his other brothers and sisters and all of the women he brings home, and how his father would rape his sisters
at night. Moses is one of the sweetest, most responsible children. In fact,
when David had found him, he was cleaning the small shack where he slept with a
bunch of other street kids. It breaks our heart how much he has gone through.
Because his father is an evil man with a lot
of money and power (it is no coincide he was only in jail 2 years for murder)
looking for his son, we have to report the case so the police and get official
custody of Moses before we take him to our Forever Homes. That way we can have
a case against him and immediately call the police if he ever steps foot
anywhere near our village. Working with the police here is not always an easy
or a straightforward thing. David reported to the police near where our
streetchildren programs are but tomorrow he has to go with Moses to report to
the police in Moses' home village, (where his sisters have already reported on
his father for sexually abusing them, and the police also know that he went to jail for murder).
Please please pray...
1) That the police will give us quick custody
of Moses
2) That God will either change his father's
heart or stop him for hurting more women and children
3) For safety for Moses from his father who
could try and track him down and seriously harm him for leaving him or even kill him
4) For healing of Moses' heart that has gone
through so much
Thank
you so much for your prayers, we could truly not do what we do without
all of you beside us!
Romans 8:31-35 So, what do you think? With God on our side like
this, how can we lose? If God didn't hesitate to put everything on the line for
us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his
own Son, is there anything else he wouldn't gladly and freely do for us? And
who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God's chosen? Who would
dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for
us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you
think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ's love
for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger,
not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst
sins listed in Scripture.
I am praying! Also I asked for prayer from my church and Knee team! Blessings to you for what you do! Until All Have Homes! Janet
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