Angel

So this is our friend Angel Lazarte. He is the younger brother of one of our guys at the boys' restoration home 'El Camino.'

Raul's in great shape. Angel as you can tell by the photo is not. Angel's 12 years old now, & strongly addicted to a form of smokeable cocaine ('pasta base'). He lives underneath a bridge in the city w/ some other 'friends,' who share the same problem. He's extremely malnourished, a runt for his age & is heading nowhere fast. We want to enlist everyone who reads our blog to pray for Angel, that he'd come off the streets, give his young life to the Lord & develop a repulsion to drugs. There's a group of 7 of these young guys trapped in serious drug use. We've managed to get one of them (Mauricio, posted in a previous blog), off the streets & he's doing well, hasn't looked back - so it is possible. Help us to pray Angel off the streets. We've gotten him as far as the reception house, but he stayed on a day or 2. We've also shown him filmed messages from his brother at the home in great shape, but so far naught. If you have any other creative suggestions drop us a line? We believe God CAN resurrect his life, EVEN after having been buried in the ashes of a crack pipe.