Church peeps & food

Sloth-tastic!

Hi all

I went visiting a few families a few days ago.  I travelled on lots of buses to get to homes on the outskirts of the city.  As we travelled further away from the centre it got very dusty and less built up.  It took about 1 and a half hours to get to one of the barrios where a lot of the guys live now.  I visited a home of a girl who has lived on the streets for years but is now back living with her mum and about 6 brothers and sisters.  She has 2 children of her own, one is a 2 month old baby boy who i held.  She is beaten up often by her boyfriend still.  She has become a christian and its amazing that shes been living at home for 6 months now without running away to the streets.

I visited a few other relatives of ex street kids who live in that area and have joined the church.  I realised what a long bus ride they have to get to church on a Sunday 1 and a half hours to centre of town.  This shows amazing commitment and they use what little money they have for the bus.  Also if it rains they cannot get to church as the roads turn to mud and the buses dont go there.  It’s raining at the moment so i’m wondering who will manage to come to church tomorrow.

We also visited the YWAM girls home that D & S used to work for. It was another opportunity to meet ex street girls and see them getting the chance to have a childhood.  The youngest girl living there is 8 years old.  We think this is a great project.

FOOOD!!!   has been good.  We went to town for lunch with Chlo yesterday and had Sonso – kind of like cheesy mashed potato.  Today we ate Sopa – broth like soup, and chicken and rice which was very tasty.  We’ve been enjoying eating bolivian food.  We babysat this afternoon for D & S so they could go to the cinema.  We had a taste of what it would be like to have 4 children!!  Tired now!  This morning we all went to the zoo, Chloe liked seeing the amazing jaguars as much as picking up leaves from the ground!  The highlight for us was meeting a sloth face to face.