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In 2007, I made my first short-term missions trip to India. During that trip the people, especially the children, stole my heart.
They barely survive by stealing, begging, searching the trash for recyclable materials, or sometimes breaking rocks for construction sites. Eventually, the need for food and shelter will drive many of them to a life of prostitution where the drugs and alcohol numb their pain and shame. Since that first missions trip in 2007, God has moved . . . doors have opened . . . and our obedience to God's word has begun to produce some rays of hope in some of these needy and abandoned children's lives. We can't rescue all of them. There are just too many! But God has not called us to save them all; He has called us to go where He leads and use what He provides to help them . . . . one child at a time.
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I was shocked beyond words to see so many street and "dump" children. ["Dump" children are those who live, sleep and eat in the dump sites with wild pigs and dogs.] Many of these children have either lost their parents or have been abandoned because of the family's severe poverty.