Spreading hope
Kids are kids – and sometimes their honesty can be disarming. "One young man, a 15-year-old on our team in Guatemala on one of our first trips wanted so badly to preach,” recalls Luce. “One day, he took the microphone, and he told the gathered crowd, through the translator, ‘I came all the way down here to let you know that God loves you, and that we love you. We came all the way here and raised all this money to let you know God loves you and we love you, too.’ He repeated it over and over, and then he began to weep. We looked around and saw that many of the people there were weeping, too. You see, love is the thing that can get translated, even if you don't know the language."