NTM

Signing Mo up for classes at his school

I walked into their house the other day and saw him sitting at the table working so hard to practice his writing.  I sat there grinning like a proud mama as he worked to write his letters.  We wrote about our little buddy, Mo, in our last newsletter and our desire to see him get a good education.  He is such a special little boy and I know that God has brought him into our lives for a special reason.  I know that it’s hard for him to focus on school because so many of his friends in the neighborhood are not going to school at all.  It would be easier for him to just run free all day and play.  But, I am so thankful that his mom wants to see him getting a good education as well.   His home is not a safe place for him and we were working really hard to find a spot in a boarding school, but there was not a place for him to start this year.  But, we have found a private school in town where he will get a good education in French.  We pray that he will continue working hard in his studies. Please keep praying for him and his family.  I went to see his mom the other day and we talked about the people living in their home that regularly beat on Mo.  She is worried for his safety and yet there is little she can do.  I pray that we can be a source of love and hope for him – even if everything else around him is darkness.  I long to rescue him from his life, but I can’t.  I have to trust that my friendship with his mom and my words to her will give her a desire to speak up.  I have to trust that God can use what the world means for evil to somehow bring good in the lives of him and his family.  I have to just speak truth to his family and put Mo in God’s hands.  Please keep praying that through us he would see Christ.