The Salvation Army opened the Patvērums Childrens Day Centre in March 2002 to provide a safe environment for underprivileged children from the local community in Riga.
Friday, February 10, 2006
Edijs
I'm just about to go home for the weekend but I wanted to ask for your prayers for one of our boys. His name is Edijs and he is 11. He's been coming to the centre for 3 and a half years and over those years we've had some very good but also some very bad and hard times with him.
Right now we are struggling. He is rude to all the staff, shows very little respect to the rules of the centre and is being disruptive. We have tried talking to him in different ways, banned him from coming to the centre one day a week and the moment we are asking him to leave at 5pm so that the staff and children can have a break. Our problem is knowing what best to do with him. Deep down he is a lovely boy who has a great sense of humour and is caring but we are not seeing this side of him at the moment. Home life is difficult; he does pretty much what he likes. He also smokes and drinks.
Please can you join us in praying for him and also pray for us as we search for the best way to work with him.
posted by Patverums Childrens Day Centre @ 8:00 pm
I'll be praying!