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How it began...
For two years Jim and Pam flew past Saltillo, MX on their way to Durango, MX to finish a church building project they had started with fellow missionaries. At each passing Jim would comment, “I know God is calling me to Saltillo….” Finally in the summer of 2005 Jim went there to find out why. With no contacts and only the name of a friend of a friend of a friend, it was a fact finding trip. Miraculously the friend turned out to be a local Pastor who also felt the call to facilitate the feeding of children. He and his wife had closed the feeding program that they had operated, because of the lack of finances. Within 5 months new plans were laid and the course set. Opening Day On December 14, 2005 Wings of Hope served its first meal to hungry children in the colonial of Tanquecito, Saltillo. Thinking that perhaps 25 street children would come, we prepared for 50 so as not to run short on food or Christmas gifts. To our amazement 200 children came that day for a hot meal and a word of encouragement. That day was a revelation as to the vast need represented in the poverty stricken areas of Mexico. The children who come to Wings of Hope are, in most cases, the children of single mothers. Many have been abandoned by their families and are left to rummage in the streets for their existence. Many of the mothers have been or still are involved in drugs and prostitution. The children are left as the unwanted residue of a life filled with bad choices. Yet the children suffer for these bad choices made by their parents. |
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