At our Project Leaders Training last week were two young men who were once hopeless and helpless but were now attending the training as leaders! They had been helped but were now helping others!
Both of them had never left their country before. They were proud owners of brand new passports – one from the Philippines and the other from Indonesia.
Roberto (aka Jet) Paltuob has just graduated from college (3rd from left in front row). Even when he was in his final year at college, he was volunteering with us as a camp organizer and camp counsellor with troubled teens in his native province of Iloilo, Philippines.
He is an amazingly hard worker and effective counsellor. It is no wonder that he can counsel troubled teens because he was once a troubled teen. For twelve years he was a pain to his mum, his family and his community. Jet was a hopeless drug addict!
However, some dear Christian friends did not give up on him and lovingly led him out of drugs and back to his mum, his family, his studies and a life of joy and usefulness. Jet is now a part of Camp Goducate – a large campsite that is dedicated to helping thousands of other like him to a life of joy and usefulness.