I have had the privilege to get to know a group of kids over the last 3 years teaching Soul Squad (a Bible Study) with a fellow teacher and friend from church. The kids are all from the neighborhood, present and past students in the neighborhood middle school. This past week we took our annual summer trip to the state park to go swimming! This year, Praise God!, we had 15 kids go along! Kind of crazy on some levels, but always fun! We provide lunch and they help get themselves into the swimming pool. This year we had some kids who we hadn't heard from in a year or two and what a blessing. Pray for these kids. They are precious and many of them are doing well, but a few are entering or have entered high school and the atmosphere is a lot tougher, and often further from the immediate neighborhood.
Pray that they continue to smile - it is contagious!
Pray that we adults continue to invest in them, to make time for them
in the midst of busy teaching schedules.
Pray that relationships will deepen with each other, and with us,
and that we are bold in speaking words of faith, hope and love.
Pray that their fun energy continues and not be robbed by the
hard world around them.
Pray that the Lord will protect them,
that their hearts will be guarded,
that walls will be broken down and
that the Holy Spirit continues to move within their hearts.
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