Praise the Lord! He is truly doing something in the lives of some of our kids here in Tremorfa.
I'm seeing a change in one of the boys I've mentioned before who has a reputation for causing trouble. It's subtle, but it's there. Since he's been old enough to come into club, he's rarely behaved well enough to stay the whole evening. Maybe twice. But this last week he stayed the while time and was only mildly misbehaving!
We had a sort of game night where we brought out a number of board games to play with the kids. This boy picked out the game Frustration, and seeing that he was the one who wanted to sit still and play a game, I was quick to jump in. So me, this one boy, and one other boy sat and played the whole game together. This boy kept wanting to roll the dice until he got the numbers he wanted, but aside from that, he behaved almost perfectly. There was no bad language and no physical roughness, which left the boy as just that: a little boy who wanted to win the game he was playing. I could see him for how young he truly is. I am enormously happy that he felt comfortable enough to set aside his "bad boy" reputation and just be himself that night. That is God answering our many prayers towards this boy already. Keep praying that God would continue to break down these walls and bring up questions in this boy's mind about God Himself.
And mentoring!!! We did our first round of mentoring last week. We met our mentees and played some get to know you games. I won't share too much simply to protect privacy. But the fact that we made it in and can start bringing Jesus into the school is fantastic! We may not even be able to talk about Jesus, but we can be Jesus to these kids and to the community.
God is so good. Thank you so much for all of your prayers. God is definitely working. Keep it up!
P.S. This is the same boy I went on about in "The Challenges" post! I'm so excited!
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