As you can imagine, Jacob is a big hit with these kids.
This community/favela is located, like most, up the side of the mountain. Here is a picture of part of it:
Each favela is controlled by drug gangs. Occasionally, the police will enter the community and their will be a "tiroteo" (shootout) between the police and the drug dealers "banditos". This happened last week during one morning Bible study up there. The police were shooting right outside the walls of the daycare center. It's so sad that these children grow up with this violence right outside their windows. The reaction to these events by the teens is sad. For some of the boys, it elicits excitement mixed with fear. For most of the girls, it's just fear. So we pray and encourage and try to teach the boys that the life of a drug dealer is not "exciting", but that these banditos are prisoners in their own world of violence.
3 comments:
What a great opportunity you have to bring God's light into a dark place!
Wow- were you guys there when the shootout happened?! That is pretty scary. I really can't imagine living around things like that. Makes me feel very sheltered.
Yes, we were there. It's a little unnerving at times ;) but we know that we have a great big God who has us in the palm of his hand.
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