As I write this post, I am nervous and anxious to have my first meeting with Ashenafi, one of Club Anbesa's new friends.
The past month has been spent praying and searching for viable management help for the club as many endeavors have fallen apart under mismanagement, money mishandling, and lack of oversight over the boys.
It has been a sad a difficult process.
Now I feel that we are back to square one. There is a whole dynamic in doing something different which makes things more difficult to accomplish. Because we are not doing the same old thing as everyone else, there has been a lot of confusion, and push back. Change is not easy. We have to make it happen.
Think of how Europe felt when some guy exclaimed the world was round! Though much of the world already knew it (the Bible even says "the circle of the earth") Yes in that time and place it was common knowledge that the world was indeed a flat thing. That change of thought happened- but someone had to make it happen and after a lot of struggle.
How we intent to "help" these boys is not the typical "meet all their physical needs in a program until they are too old to receive help, or have received all they can receive" at no or little cost to them. That is not what we went to do!
I have written many posts about how that hinders and hurts these boys, the economy, and society in the long run, but what is difficult is now convincing others that this is what we should do! When they also come from a long line of flat world believers.
I am praying, and I an hoping God to come thru with clarity and wisdom, that these boys will have a real hope and future.
The past month has been spent praying and searching for viable management help for the club as many endeavors have fallen apart under mismanagement, money mishandling, and lack of oversight over the boys.
It has been a sad a difficult process.
Now I feel that we are back to square one. There is a whole dynamic in doing something different which makes things more difficult to accomplish. Because we are not doing the same old thing as everyone else, there has been a lot of confusion, and push back. Change is not easy. We have to make it happen.
Think of how Europe felt when some guy exclaimed the world was round! Though much of the world already knew it (the Bible even says "the circle of the earth") Yes in that time and place it was common knowledge that the world was indeed a flat thing. That change of thought happened- but someone had to make it happen and after a lot of struggle.
How we intent to "help" these boys is not the typical "meet all their physical needs in a program until they are too old to receive help, or have received all they can receive" at no or little cost to them. That is not what we went to do!
I have written many posts about how that hinders and hurts these boys, the economy, and society in the long run, but what is difficult is now convincing others that this is what we should do! When they also come from a long line of flat world believers.
I am praying, and I an hoping God to come thru with clarity and wisdom, that these boys will have a real hope and future.
