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Published on: 5/23/2008
Last Visited: 6/27/2008
It was a lot of fun practicing and presenting our work to the community, friends, family and special guests such as Christal Earle, however, it was not a simple production to put together.
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In my head, I keep repeating, "Ok, Christal, calm down and don't judge this situation until you find out the truth".With measured control in my voice, I asked if I could see him.She proceeded to tell me that he no longer lived with them, and that he was now with a Dominican Family up the hill.Her son led us up the hill and as we wound our way through little rivers of garbage and mud, past houses with blaring sound systems, dodging chickens, dogs, and other unidentifiable creatures, we finally came to a nice painted cement house (a rarity for this village) and knocked on the door (also a rarity!).Inside, a man with kind eyes looked out at us and smiled, and Bernard explained to him who we were.He replied, "Oh, yes, we were expecting you to come find us!".And then, from out around the corner of the doorway, I saw those same beautiful eyes searching mine.As soon as he saw it was me, he came forward.We met in the doorway, and I held him and cried.I kept kissing his cheek and telling him how much I missed him and how much I loved him.He just stayed there with his arms around me and nodded his head.I turned to the man whose house we were in and I told him thanks so much for taking such good care of him.He told me, "I can see that you love him very much.We love him too.We brought him here because we don't want to see him being mistreated anymore."That was what I needed to hear: that he was somewhere safe and somewhere where he was loved.
We began to walk back down to meet up with everyone, and David showed me his new school, as well as where he and his friends play.He told me is happy now and that he feels safe.The people that have taken him in were friends with some missionaries that visit his village, and they were very good to him and made him know he was loved.