Update on Marvincito and Hector

Above: Becca smiles with Marvincito during an outing earlier this year. Below: Marvincito and Hector share a hug during a trip to Valle de Angeles in June.

Below: Hector inhales yellow glue from a bottle after having returned to the streets last week.

This note was written by long-term Micah missionary Rebecca (Haver) Bell on June 30:

Today John, Jose, and I went looking for Marvincito and Hector in the market area... mainly just wanting to tell them again that we love them and are praying for them. We got soaked in a rainstorm, talked with a LOT of friendly street kids, but couldn't find those two. Finally, as we headed over the last bridge... there was Marvincito, standing under shelter next to a street vendor, puffing away on his yellow glue in his shirt. He stared at us, and let me hug him.

I just kept telling him that we love him, that God loves him, and that he's NOT alone. (He so quickly believes the lies that he has been abandoned once again, and is the little boy that no one wants and no one takes care of...) I had written him a letter telling him the same things, and had a Christian necklace that somone had given me for him, so I gave them to him and asked him to take care of them and read it later. He was pretty out of it, and quickly hugged us goodbye and stumbled off, staring at the letter in his hand. We left with sad and heavy hearts... praying for the boy we've loved for exactly two years now.

Then tonight at 7:30 Marvin showed up at the Micah House door... still high, still dirty, but saying he's ready to go spend a few days at Flora's house in Villa Linda Miller to show he wants to come back to Micah (that is the rule that had been set for him this time). Since there continues to be a 9:00 curfew because of political unrest, John and I grabbed some of his stuff and a mattress and raced out to VLM... as the glue wore off, he began to smile about how much math class Paty (Flora's daughter, and his math teacher) was going to give him.

PLEASE pray that he would wake up tomorrow with the desire to move toward life. That there would be a BREAKTHROUGH in these days - in his spirit and his attitude, and a marked difference in his actions. Before he comes back to Micah, we are going to need to have a very serious meeting with him, and explain that we are done playing this game, and give him some ultimatums. Pray that we would be wise, and that it would push him toward God and good choices.

Also continue to pray for Hector... the street kids say that he was with his brother and his dad today, and wasn't inhaling glue... so pray that this is true, and that they will be able to convince him to rejoin us and give us back the joyful and loving boy that we all miss so much.

Continue to pray for our beautiful country Honduras as well, that God's will would be done and that HE would be glorified in the midst of political upheaval.

Much love from Tegucigalpa,

Becca