“It’s War!”

It started innocently enough. We were on day three of a five day English Camp in Puebla, when out of nowhere there she was. At first glance you would have thought it was Mother Teresa as she was donning the white and blue trimmed habit of the Missionaries of Charity. She had come to teach the weekly catechism class. We were sharing the same park at the same time and worse yet, the same children. Only later did I learn that she went to our tables and recruited our children by asking, “Have you taken your first communion?”, “Have you had your baptism?” And saying, “You need to come to catechism!”, “I can teach you English if you want to learn.”

Of all the gall, needless to say our attendance was down that day. As Diana told me what happened I commented, “That was a low blow.” To which she aptly and insightfully replied, “It’s war!”

It’s tough to take though. Look into the faces of these children. See the hope fading into hopelessness? See their destiny? They are being aggressively pursued. And we are losing.

In all of his years of holding English Camps our team leader said he had never encountered anything like it. We are in need of supplies. We need supplies of people of faith coming, people of complementing abilities on the scene and behind the scenes, desperate intercessors giving more time to prayer, others coming and staying, risk takers, Spirit filled followers of the Way… Why? Because in the trenches - “It’s War.”