Salvation Poem

This past Saturday I got the opportunity to spend some time with some of the youth from the church. There is a movie that has come out here about the Christian rock artist Pablo Oliveras from Argentina. He grew up in a Christian home, but in high school became a Satanist. The movie is all about his time messing with the occult and his mother continuously praying for him. It's a moving movie about the power of prayer. Anyway, the church had planned to go and the plan was to meet at 3 at the church. Well as things do here, the plan changed. The new plan was to meet at 6:30 in town at the taxi stop. I went into town with 2 of the kids from the habitat village and Ken's son Tim. When we got into town, we found out that the trip had been postponed until the next Saturday. Well since we had already paid to get into town, we decided to go. Tim went home. So we get to the mall and go to the theatre (which is really nice. 8 screens). What moved me even more than the movie was that when we were getting ready to go in, both of the kids' faces lit up. Florangel kept saying, "We're going in, we're going in. We're in!" I always know that there are things that we take for granted in the States, but this really opened my eyes. And to think about what they sacrificed to pay to get into the city and into the movie. The church paid half, but still. I was so moved to see how walking into a movie theatre completely brightened the day of 2 young people. If that simple act can better a life, then think about how much of a difference can be made by doing small things for the less fortunate in the world.