By Michael Carson
This season is a busy and exciting time at Breaking Chains for many reasons. Holiday celebrations are coming, faces we’ve missed have returned home, and two of our BC teens, Ricardo and Eunice, are finishing up their last semester of high school to graduate in December. Graduating high school is a huge accomplishment, especially for students in Honduras from their life circumstances. It marks years of hard work and persistence, and we are proud to watch them realize their achievements.
Ricardo and Eunice have different stories and came to find a home with BC in different ways, but they are both an integral part of our family
RICARDO:
We work with a lot of jaded young adults. The darkness of this world has struck them down time and time again, and they have a hard time believing it can be any better. Ricardo, however, despite having lost so many people in his life, has maintained his innocence in a way I have never seen before.
Ricardo has lived with us for three years, and he came to us both very innocent and also very immature. He lied often, grasping for attention by making up elaborate stories. But he has matured. He has continued “la lucha,” the fight over the years, and next month we will watch Ricardo graduate. He will graduate having studied technology and having done his required internship in the tech department of a local hospital.
Ricardo has dreams of recording music, and that’s where his true passions lie. But he also knows making a living at that is difficult. He wants to begin 2020 preparing for the entrance exams to attend the public university here. Depending on what he scores on that entrance exam, he will determine what he is able to study. Ricardo isn’t perfect, but his sweet, still somehow innocent heart leads him to keep fighting, keep moving toward the person God intends for him to be. We feel blessed to be a part of it.
EUNICE:
We have a phrase around our ministry we use about new kids who walk through our doors. They usually begin very sweet and seem perfect, but then they “flip the switch” once they become comfortable or feel like we are getting too close. Obviously, none of us are perfect. But one of the few people to never “flip the switch” is Eunice.
Since Eunice arrived at our doors in 2018, I don’t think I have ever seen her give anyone attitude, get angry or even seem very upset. She came to us because her mom couldn’t afford to pay for her schooling and needed extra support. She is the sweetest child and never bothers anyone. She also studied technology and had her internship in the tech department of a local hospital.
Eunice wants to pursue the military after graduation, and we hope to help her fulfill that dream. We hope whatever she ends up doing in life she never gives up on the sweet nature God gave her.
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We are grateful to the sponsors who have made Ricardo and Eunice’s journeys with us possible, and we can’t wait to cheer them along in whatever path God leads them on next. Please join us in praying for both of them over the next few months.