You may have read when I posted last Monday about Billy. Monday evening I wrote a little about him and asked for prayer for him. He had stayed at the church in a tent in the back for 5 or 6 weeks. Some people from the city came by and saw the tent and said that he can't stay there any longer. No one at the church wanted him to leave. So they fixed up the back of the old work truck so he could stay living in it. He didn't really feel comfortable with the idea and said that he was going to leave. He said he would keep coming to church and to the Bible studies and helping out at the church. He also started to give all the things back that people had given him; clothes and blankets, and things like that. Last Saturday morning, many gathered together and prayed over him. We saw him that night when he came to our worship night. That's when this picture was taken. On Tuesday morning, he committed suicide. He laid down in front of the train. We are praying for his parents, Bob and Alice. They have been praying for him for a number of years. He also has a sister, although I don't know her name.

There is nothing we can do for him now. So what do we do? There are many more troubled kids out there. They need love. We don't have to be able to relate to them in order to love them. We don't have to be a theologan, or to live a perfect life to love them. Help us, Lord to be an expression of your love.