There are some ministries that are just not as “easy” as others. Alcance Victoria´s outreach to men, women, and children in heavy, habitual drug abuse is one of these types of ministries. Located in a short alley that feels much like Hell on Earth, Medellin´s Bronx is a place where addicts of all types are […]
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-BY TOM ATWATER The Street Child Who Turned Our Lives Upside-Down 1995 in Cartagena, Colombia On a balmy Colombian summer night in 1995, my girlfriend Jen and I were walking along the cobblestone streets of the old city of Cartagena, Colombia where I had accepted a job teaching English as a Second Language. Suddenly, up
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-BY TOM ATWATER Love Calls Out the Identity: The Knife Fight at Our Peace Event We had been directing the children’s center for 200 at-risk children in a hard-hit sector of Medellín for several years now, and we were sick and tired of seeing the enemy´s plans for the beautiful people of the neighborhood. In
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God Gives a Homeless Woman an “Extreme Spiritual Makeover”! I was in the middle of leading our morning staff devotionals when a knock came at the door of the center for at-risk children and families we were directing in a hard-hit sector of Medellín, Colombia. We had very little time left before the children were to
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