Saturday, September 27, 2014

Homelessness

Here are two women's stories from the Bible study that we do at La Roca church in Zona Norte. One of the first women I met when I came was named Sandra. ( I mentioned her in my blog post called In the Zone and I wrote the wrong name, I called her Carla so I am sorry for that.) Anyway, Sandra is so sweet and I feel like we have a good connection. She always gives me a huge hug when we arrive. She is a woman so on fire for God. She loves worship,  she loves to read her Bible and she loves to talk about what God has done in her life. Here is a little background on Sandra. 
Before YWAM San Diego/Baja began to work regularly with La Roca, they would go out to the parks and the ravine on the boarder and minister to the people there. One of our staff, Blanca, would meet with Sandra who was living in the park. Sandra was usually drunk and rarely wanted prayer, she was quite rude in all honesty. But after she came to La Roca, the Lord changed her heart. Now she is so on fire! La Roca does ministry in the dump here in Tijuana. Sandra was saying how excited she was to go along so she could share what Jesus has done in her life! This was so cool to see. We are seeing fruit from the ministry! She said she doesn't know a lot about the Bible but she can share what Jesus has done in her life. It is so exciting to see what God is doing in the life of Sandra. It is so encouraging to see fruit. 
Here is the story of Veronica, she is a new face at our Bible study last Monday. She is a tiny petite lady. I had seen Veronica at the women's Bible study La Roca also does on Wednesday mornings. She is about 7 months pregnant. After the Bible study I told her it was really nice to meet her and asked her how she was feeling. She began to tell me about how she didn't want to be pregnant. She tried to get an abortion and then tried to commit suicide. If it weren't for her brother she would have killed herself along with her unborn baby. She went on to tell me that her other children are in foster care and she can visit them sometimes. Her husband used to beat her and her children so she ran away but the government took her kids away from her because she was doing drugs. Now she is living on the streets. She was crying through a lot of her story. She says she wants to be a good mom, she has stopped doing drugs and smoking now that she is pregnant. She doesn't know how she is going to raise the baby if she doesn't have a home. The government will most likely take her baby away from her because she doesn't have a home. 
These two women both come from the streets. I am touched by their stories. I know God has a plan fro Sandra and Veronica and I am so blessed to be in their lives! 
Prayer Requests: 

  • A praise for what God has done and is doing in Sandra's life. That she would continually be discipled as she seeks the Lord! 
  • God would restore Sandra and her children as they have a strained relationship.  
  • God would provide for Veronica and her baby a safe place to live. 
  • For health for her and her baby. 
  • Veronica needs a lot of restoration in her life, that the Holy Spirit would be working. She said she feels like God wants her to forgive her husband but she said it's so hard because of all that he has done to her and her children.   


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