Please Pray for Diego

Some of you may have read about Diego in one of our past newsletters. I met this young man toward the middle of last year when he wondered into a Sunday morning service at our church in the capital. Diego has had a very hard life; he watched his mother and sister drown when he was just a boy, and a little over a year ago his father was drunk and died when he fell down a set of cement stairs. For the past ten years Diego has been throwing his life away, indulging in alcohol, drugs and prostitutes. I have tried to help Diego and things were going well for a while. He spent the last four months of 2009 in a rehab center and regularly met with me and attended church. But Diego left the rehab center while we were in the States over Christmas time and once again fell into his old habits. A week and a half ago he was very nearly killed as he was lying out in the street drunk at 2:00 AM. Some young men robbed him, kicked him several times in the face, and tried to stab him.

This past Tuesday Diego came to our apartment once again seeking help. I have been working with him a lot this week, and our national pastor Rolando even let him stay in a room out at the mission house in Paraiso for a couple of days. Diego went to a clinic yesterday to follow up on some of the injuries that he received from the robbery and never returned to Paraiso like he said that he would. We haven’t heard from him since.

Please help us pray for Diego. The devil is doing a good job at ruining this young man's life, but God is more powerful than the devil. Diego is only thirty years old and there is just something about him that makes me believe that God has great things in store for Diego if he really gets his life straightened out.