Introducing C and A

C just had her 18th birthday over the weekend!  She has a little boy who is 2 1/2 and she is eager to go to school and start working.  We have already been able to meet several times and talk extensively about PDE.  She is beyond excited for this opportunity!  This afternoon Lyssa is taking her to see the house and meet our house moms.

C and her son A come from the neighborhood where the Troxells and Lyssa work and I love to see our ministries overlapping so much.  Ashley has been able to get to know her, especially because of some serious health needs that her son has had.  Since he was born she has basically been on her own trying desperately to make ends meet.  From the age of 15 she left home and just recently moved back in with her mom.  She definitely comes from a hard past, as do all of the girls, but she seems to have a maturity that comes from having had to try to make it on her own.  She knows that life is hard and you have to fight for your education and your job.  I hope that she will continue to show that kind of drive and that we will be able to help her to provide a different kind of future for her son.

My favorite story so far about C has to do with her telling me her life story.  When she was 15 she left home and started working, but she never mentioned where she worked.  Meanwhile she is telling me that she lived in one city, no another city, and this thing happened here, oh no, when she was living there.  Honestly, she sounded a little crazy... she couldn't seem to keep the details straight and she had me worried.  The following week I went by to talk to her again to try to get the story straight with her mom there.  Turns out the job she had was working for the traveling carnival!  Now that makes WAY more sense!

C goes to church every week, but seems to think that being a Christian has to do with pleasing God with her actions.  Please pray with me that she will come to know the grace of God and that salvation is a gift.  I so badly want to see her live in freedom from having to rely on her actions, but relying on the Lord to make her more like Jesus everyday.