I love how this ministry allows me to see kids differently.
There is a student at my school, who happens to live in the house, that does not have the best reputation on campus. Some have confided in me that they actually fear him.
When they say this though, I laugh...I see this kid as the one who showed me his ichthys fish pendant the first time I met him and told me it was one of the few possessions he carried with him from home. I see him as the kid who stood beside me and served food at Salvation Army. As we filled plates with food he confided in me that he and his family had lived in a "place like this" before. I see him as the kid who willingly says hello every time he sees me in the halls at school.
This is not a kid to fear...this is a kid who needs to be seen, and loved, and heard. God sees all these children and He needs us to see them, too.
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