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| The Urchins for Jesus |
| A Ministry of The Glimpse of Jesus Missions International |
| These stories are excerpts from: A Journal of Memories by: Sylvia B. Duyan |
| We also cut their nails. |
| Every Saturday, these children would come to the "Mission House" in overloaded tricycles. As they arrived, we bathed them and allowed them to splash in the swimming pool then we clothed them and served them food and hot broth. |
| Just like spiky urchins scattered at sea, these children are scattered in the streets and market places of Metro Manila. Many of whom are children of destitute adults who have grown up from being urchins themselves. A good number of them have at 13 brothers and sisters and they are left to survive on their own while their parents sell peanuts and cigarettes by the sidewalks. Some are born by very young mothers (teen-age urchins) who have had many abusive experiences committed to them by men in the "urchin's community. |
| We prayed together and we counseled them in their troubles. We talked just about anything: we talked about God's love, and sometimes we did basic numbers and alphabet. |
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| It was wonderfull to watch many of them grow with us and we have become their family. |
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