Sunday February 28th, 2010 Jason from Family Life Fellowship on Vimeo.

True Image of a Street Kid

If you saw Slumdog Millionaire, you know the story for many children on the streets of Mumbai and how many are trapped into the sex industry, slave labour, and gangs that maim children and force them into begging gangs. Startling statistics estimate their to be 120 million street children around the world. 8.4 million children work as slave labourers, child sex slaves or soldiers worldwide. 1.2 million children are kidnapped, sold or smuggled each year. We saw this statistic play out during our stay in Mumbai, India. Many streets kids came up begging for food or money. You could see that they were kidnapped by the tattoos on their body's to mark who they belong to and by the deformity of their bodies which were places there by their "master." It doesn't matter what markings they have on their body, they are stamped with a more permanent marking...the image of God. They don't belong to these earthly masters, but to their heavenly Father.

"And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them." Genesis 1:27