Break my heart for what breaks yours

I have been struggling with coming up with something to blog about all week. Every time I have started writing, I ended up stopping since it didn’t seem to be right. Then tonight I watched a movie called “unconditional” and it lead me to this post and what I am writing about. I have been in Dallas for about 10 weeks now, so over 2 months, and a lot has been going on but I have found myself too busy to truly see what’s in front of me and what’s going on. As I have stated in previous posts, I used to think that to be a missionary, you needed to leave the country, but the more I am in Dallas and the more I am doing with the Dallas Leadership Foundation and meeting with people, the more I am seeing the need for Christ right here in the United States and in Dallas. That there is brokenness in our backyards and I am thankful that God has brought me here rather than sending me overseas to be a missionary.

So, what has been going on in Texas since I have been here?

Youth Leadership Department

For the past couple of weeks I have been in 2 different schools and helping to be a mentor during the lunch program in the schools. I am in Lake Highlands Freshman Center on Tuesday’s and Roosevelt High School on Thursday’s and I am working with the females in both schools. While I was not the biggest fan of being in the schools after my first school visit, I am realizing the need in the schools. Both schools are different than what I am used to and different than my high school and for a while, I was wondering what the need was in the schools. That mind set changed after being in the schools for a few weeks and looking through pre-evaluations of the students. After these 2 things, I realized the need to be in the schools and reach out to these students. At the same time, I am broken by the life styles of these students and what they are dealing with. It breaks me to see how many of the students are living with only one parent, which is usually the mother, since they don’t have a father. The movie that I watched tonight stated that, “28% of all children in the world live without their biological father and 24.7million of those live in America.” With that being said, I am thankful for having a Heavenly Father that is always there and will never leave our side. So, I would say that God is working on me and breaking me through the experiences and life styles of the students that we are working with.

In the next blog I will post about the other department that I am working in as well, the Neighborhood Community Development department.  So, check that post out as well.