Sobre el Puente Update/ Introducing Rachel

Hola! This is Rachel. For the past three days, I have been going to Sobre el Puente, and I want to give you a quick update on how things are going there. It has been good to get to spend time with a few of the kids I got to know back at the beginning of June. Many of the kids that were there a few weeks ago haven't been coming, but in several cases that is good news because kids have gone back to live with their parents. The two boys who are still living in the house are doing great, but there is still no word on Pedro, who I wrote about last week. Andres came today, and he seems to be doing okay, but he still doesn't want to live in the house. There are several kids coming now that I didn't meet before.

I have a special prayer request for all of the pregnant girls who are living on the streets in Acapulco. Two of the girls who have been coming to Sobre el Puente this week are pregnant. One of them, who I will call Alejandra, has been coming with her one-year-old son and is pregnant with her second child. She is nineteen and works washing windshields for money at the stoplights on the highway. Fortunately, she has been living at a friend's apartment since the baby was born, but she still doesn’t have a lot of money to buy food, and she doesn't know a lot about how to care for a child. Please pray for health and safety for Alejandra, her son, and the baby growing inside her, as well as for the other pregnant girl who has been coming to Sobre el Puente and all the young mothers in Acapulco. Pray that these young women would come to Christ and be able to raise their children in godly homes, and pray for the wonderful ladies who work at Sobre el Puente, that they can give love and guidance to the young mothers who come to them. God really can work in these young women's lives, as shown by the life of another young woman who came to visit Sobre el Puente Tuesday afternoon. This young woman was coming to Sobre el Puente when I worked there back in June, and, she was in a situation similar to Alejandra's except with her one-year-old son living in a children's home here in Acapulco. However, I was trilled to hear her talk about Christ as her savior. After going camping with us, she went back to live with her parents. When she stopped by on Tuesday to say hi and pick up some shoes she had left there, she brought her son with her. Praise God for working in her life, and pray that He will do the same in these other girls' lives.

Now changing the subject, I would like to introduce you to Rachel from Pennsylvania, who unexpectedly joined our group here at Casa Hogar. Rachel came with a team from her church two and a half weeks ago and expected to leave after one week, but God had other plans. She lost her bag with her passport on the way from the airport to Casa Hogar, and, due to complications with paperwork, was unable to get a new one before her team left. Her mother and brother stayed behind with her for one week, but they left this past Saturday, hoping that her mother could better manage the paperwork situation from within the US. So, Rachel is now scheduled to fly back to the US two weeks from now, and in the meantime, she gets to hang out with us! We are all happy to have her here working with us, and we know that God will do special things with her in the next two weeks. However, she is several years younger that most of us, and she definitely did not plan on this happening, so it is difficult for her to be away from her family in a foreign country for so long. Please pray that God will give her peace and strength; pray that He will use her time here for His purpose; and pray that the passport situation will finally get worked out in the next two weeks.
Thank you for your prayers and support of everyone living and working here in Acapulco!