Visiting the Senen Box Dwellers

“For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’” - Deuteronomy 15:11

On October 24, the Youth Group made a service visit to the Senen area to distribute food packages to local “box dwellers” — a homeless community living in makeshift housing of cardboard and canvas. A church in the area, held in a private home, in in contact with Youth For Christ to assist these people in their physcial and spirital needs.

When the youth arrived on Saturday morning, we discovered that, hours before, the government had preformed a routine “clean up” of the area, burning the houses of the box dwellers which are illegally located on public property between two railroad tracks.

Please pray for these people, that YFC and the local church will be able to not only assist with their desperate physcial poverty, but also bring the gospel to them.