More Than A Sunday Church

This week I had a chance to visit the after school program at Verbo Church. The tutoring program started in October and goes until June. This program was generously given by a large church to jump start a vision that Pastor Orlando Cardona had to use the church MORE THAN ON SUNDAYS.

The Sunday school rooms were in place. Twenty-four children were selected from the Touchdown Camp to participate. When I visited on Tuesday, Sandra and the two tutors were very busy helping the children with math problems. There are good reports of improved grades but there Is a bonus to the program in that parents are required to attend a parenting class taught by Pastor Orlando and Patty!

Good parents don't just spring up. They need to be taught. Being a parent isn't a picnic even with the kids who are easy. We need to have reserves of wisdom and of love and of patience that are far beyond our own. I can't imagine how tough it would be to be a single mom working several jobs to just barely make enough to pay the rent. We are trusting God for another miracle that this little school. A Bridge of Hope to the neediest in Redwood City can continue and even be expanded.

People can live without a lot of things but they need these non-tangibles to go on. They need hope, and so do the children. And they need love, and so do the children.