Baradero

Tonight I had supper with Horacio and Silvia, a couple that I mentioned previously that hope to move to the urban slum of Baradero. They have been going there with the Libertador church for a few years to do relief work. There is a feeding center for children on the weekends (they can eat at school during the week). They are also working on growing a church there that had 7 people and now has 25. They are very excited to move there full-time, because they want to really get to know the people and facilitate lasting changes. Also, the difficulty going there only on the weekends is that most of the men are drunk by mid-day on Saturday, all the way through Sunday night. So the main activities are with the women and children.

Lasting change, true transformation is the hope we have for the people of Baradero. One of Silvia's friends there was a woman who was working as a prostitute but had received some microenterprise training through Horacio and Silvia. She started to sell churros (a type of doughnut), but it was difficult for the community to accept that she had changed her business. Within the last two months she has gone back to drug use and prostitution. Please pray.

We are going to Baradero tomorrow (Friday) through Sunday. Please pray that we will meet people who are motivated for change and that we will understand what the next steps are to be. Please pray that hope will come to this community.