most days of the week we have street people who come to the made in the streets center in Eastleigh…Mondays young mothers with children and babies  come for a program… simultaneously teen age boys come for a program…Tuesday the teen boys return for a continued program… Wednesday we have a session with the teen girls… Thursday teen and older boys play soccer and then come to the mits center for a devotional and meal…and at all times there are drop-ins with medical, financial, emotional and spiritual challenges whom we try to serve…

I have been teaching the teen girls the past several weeks. My objective is for them to fall in love with Jesus!!! … We begin with games and laughter, then sing and pray and share memory verses… I then teach my lesson with a lot of dramas and props … we conclude with prayer and then they are given a hot, healthy meal.

The girls have taught me so much thru their prayer lives.

I don’t know that I have ever heard a street person pray without either thanking God that they could live another day or that God allowed them to awake once again in the morning….

The girl’s prayers include:

~ praying for their enemies (we have two groups of girls whose “bases” or trash heaps are fighting one another and we have girls from both places who come)

~ Praying for their country

~ praying for themselves to obey God

~ asking God to help them stop fighting with others

~ praying for their leaders

~ asking God to help them leave prostitution (where they get up to a dollar to buy food)

~ praying for their teachers (us ;-)

~ praying that they understand God’s word

~ Praying that they might stop lying

~ praying that they might stop gossiping

~ praying that they might stop hating

~ asking God to do them a “favor” of helping them stop sniffing glue

~ praying that they can forgive those who have hurt them

~ asking God to provide food for the day / keep them from being hungry

~ help them not live so selfishly

They thank God for :

~releasing me from the mental hospital

~ caring for me after my parents have died

~ giving me life

~ family

~ clothing

~ health     

~ teachings

~ Food

~ self-control

~ Creating me

          ~ Jesus

May we join them in prayer …. Hollye