Las Tablas... Costa Rica

These are the children we worked with the first week here in Costa Rica. We also preached a few evening sermons at a church in San Jose here... but predominantly we worked with these children. These children live in the absolute barrio (ghetto) of San Jose... the poorest of the poor districts... where all of the drug lords are... the absolute slums. These children are most definitely classified as "Children at Risk". We had the chance to sing songs with them, play some games, tell some bible stories, and color and play with them. It was amazing, these kids are so broken... perhaps my favorite part of the whole week was just sitting with them as they colored... they would scooch close to you so as to have your physical presence right next to them... you could sense their desperation for some sort of love or security. These kids need intercession and it was a humbling experience to simply try to love them as much as we could while we could. These children absolutely captivated my heart... there were a few in particular that I would take home with me in a heartbeat if it were at all a possibility.

Please pray for these children... don´t just look at the faces and not care... these kids are special to God... and should be special to us.