You saw me when no one saw me

Above: Oscar Amaya (tall young man in the back), a friend from England named Anita and Brian Wiggs minister to a group of street boys in the market on July 28.

Above: Hector studies a live crab in the Tegucigalpa farmer's market. Although Hector has been with us since last November, he spent three weeks back on the streets last month. Thankfully, he has returned to the Micah House!

Above: Jose Daniel holds his portrait that was painted by Carolyn Rogers. He stands next to Brian Wiggs, our newest missionary!

(This update links to a video put together by Jenna Miller about our street ministry that you can see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAnBGKmBcNs ).

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There is a song in Spanish, a popular worship song called La Niña de Tus Ojos, by Daniel Calvetti. Loosely translated "the child of my eyes," the song is a poem about the love between our heavenly Father and His children. It begins this way:

You saw me when no one saw me
You loved me when no one loved me
and You gave me a name,
and I am the child of your eyes.

While this song describes our spiritual condition before coming to God, in this present realm it could easily be talking about the street kids that inhabit the dark corners of Tegucigalpa's marketplace. Kids who suck all the fumes out of a bottle of yellow glue precisely because they are the forgotten of society, who desperately need to hear from their heavenly Father that they are the children of His eyes.

At the Micah House, our job is to mirror God's love into the lives of young boys who have lived life unseen, unloved...a nameless existence in a society that treats them like refuse. I could tell you many stories of how our loving and dedicated missionary staff lives out this love to our boys on a daily basis. For example, last week, our newest missionaries, Brian and Natasha Wiggs, were in Honduras with their two kids in order to rent the house that they will live in when they move here permanently in November. When they came, they presented us with a very special gift from Carolyn Rogers, one of our dear friends from Portland, Oregon. Carolyn had painted a beautiful portrait of Jose Daniel, one of the street boys who lives in the market. It was truly an amazing moment when Jose Daniel visited the Micah House one night last week and got to hold a painting of himself in his hands. Her painting told this street boy: I saw you when no one saw you.

Another missionary will be moving to Honduras this month to begin a long term ministry with us. Jenna Miller was a teacher at a bilingual school here in Tegucigalpa, but she began to volunteer in her off hours with the Micah Project. She fell in love with the street kids during our Friday "street kid soccer" ministry, and began to build strong friendships with our boys during frequent visits to the Micah House. Last week, she put together a moving video about the street kids, based on the song La Niña de tus Ojos. In the video, you can learn the names of many of these nameless children and youth!

Click here to see Jenna's video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAnBGKmBcNs. If you want to learn more about what it means to be a street kid on yellow glue, I highly recommend the documentary "Glue boys" which you can order at http://www.glueboys.com/ .


Please continue to pray for strength, courage, and an overabundance of love for our staff: Becca, John, Michael, Roger, Marlon and the rest, as we continue to teach these boys that they are the children of God's eyes!

Su hermano en Cristo,

Michael Miller