How We Began: My Dream
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- Published: Friday, 12 April 2002 15:46
- Written by Corina Clements Soria
This is something that I (Corina Clements) wrote back in August 1999… a reflection on where all this had started. This was written before El Jordán officially came to exist but it gives you a bit of history of the heart behind the place… if you have the patience to wade through it all.
I look around me... the pictures of some of the kids on my bulletin board... the "street kid storage room" - all the shelves of clothes and things for the homes and kids... the stacks of Bible correspondence courses and Bibles to give out to the kids and people in jails... my love and desire to reach these kids...
Where did it all begin?? Back on that night in October, 1995?? When Pajarito with tears in his eyes pleaded with me to pray for him... pray for him??? At that time I was searching in my own life for what God had for me to do... I was willing to do anything or go anywhere... That night on the way home from our Bible study, Luz Marina's car broke down on the edge of the city... we prayed for help... and God sent us drug addicts... Pajarito appeared out of no where by my side... and helped fix the car... It was my first direct contact with drug addicts... and people who live on the streets, under bridges, in the woods or in drainage/sewage canals of the city... It was on that night God opened my eyes and heart to this needy group of people...