She Didn't Want to Lose Her Job

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Published: Sunday, 26 April 2009 15:46

Written by Corina Clements Soria

I know, I just wrote… but this one won’t be that long!  I promise!!!!

I wanted to ask you to please pray for one of our students…  Ruth…  I’ve known her for 12 years or so… from the streets as a teenager – who seemed so young and not too “deep” into the streets yet…  I remember urging her to go back home…  Then she got pregnant… the father – a street kid (Sueno mediano – middle sized Sleepy… some of you might remember the “Sleepy” brothers)…  This only tightened the ties to the streets… which led her down the road to jail… where her second child was born…  The father of her second and third kids died – street related stuff…  …and when Ruth got out of jail, she started coming to El Jordan…

She has amazing talent for handcrafts… crochet especially… She does amazing work… dress sets etc for little baby girls… etc…

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Would You Come to Chapel?

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Published: Saturday, 25 April 2009 15:46

Written by Corina Clements Soria

We have “chapel” on the last Friday evening of the month... in a desire to help bridge the gap between “our kids” and the local church...  and in an effort to reach their family members.

In our yearly planning, we discussed our chapel...   Our students mentioned two main reasons why it was hard for them to make it... bus fare and getting home at night...  Although we try to get done by 8:30 p.m., transportation is still a problem.  Living on the fringes of the city means that some of our students have to take two buses,,,  Complicating matters further are bus drivers who will avoid picking up an adult with a bunch of kids who don’t pay full fare but take up space... Some girls wait so long to get picked up by the first bus that by the time they get to the second bus it might be too late, too full and too difficult to be picked up (with a group of kids)... 

Solution?

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Pictures ... In Case You Didn't Believe It!

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Published: Wednesday, 18 March 2009 15:46

Written by Corina Clements Soria

Well… we have a hard time believing that its true… but when I see my belly growing (it is now much bigger than the pictures, sigh) and my pants don’t fit I realize that all this is REALLY happening to us…  Wow…

We went to another doctors appointment on March 5th… and everything seems to be fine… the baby is growing… His little head was almost 8 cms across… and his little femur is 6 cm long…  According to a formula using the size of the baby’s belly, he was weighing almost 1.7 kilograms already… and should be adding another quarter kilo every week from now on… (What does that mean for MY belly?  Oh dear!)

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Faces from Christmas On The Streets 2008

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Published: Friday, 06 March 2009 16:46

Written by Corina Clements Soria

This first set of pictures was more from the wooded areas where Marco took “Christmas on the Streets". Most of the people in those areas are addicted to cocaine paste… drugs that are so destructive… and make the people retreat from society into these dark, hidden pockets of the city…

The second set are mostly from where I took “Christmas on the Streets” – downtown (where all the lights are bright…)… where there are more prostitutes… smaller kids… with glue and marijuana being their drugs of choice…

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