Some Sad News

I received an email tonight from an Orphan Helpers employee, Josh, who is currently in El Salvador staying in the Faith House (which is where I stayed last time and where I'll be staying this time).

"I plead for your prayers tonight. One of the boys, Luis Carlos Barientos, who lives in the Faith House where I am staying in El Salvador was found murdered today in his hometown Atiquazaya. He was 18 and following God´s calling on His life in ministry. We shared dinner Saturday night and went to CIPI, a protective center for girls who´´ve been abused together. God´s presence in Him was powerful, and I believe even more so now.

We are going to his funeral tomorrow. Please pray for his family, all the guys at the Faith House, and the entire Orphan Helpers family - for God to be our peace. Thank you all for joining us in crying out to God, as we ask for strength to trust Him in pain, and for Him to glorify Himself somehow in this. We pray for mercy on his murderer and for lost souls to know God through this.

But you, O God, do see trouble and grief, you consider it to take it in hand. The victim commits himself to you, you are the helper of the fatherless. Psalm 10:14

In His Hands,

Josh"

Please lift up these prayer requests and pray for continued protection for the rest of the boys in the Faith House. Thanks and God bless.