Pray For Helena

Sometime I forget why I'm in Helena. Yes, there is poverty, but sometimes I forget that means more than just not getting everything you want. Poverty means fear, anger, corruption, and doing everything you can to get ahead of the people around you. This summer, the school district was taken over by the state, the second time, for corruption in the school board. I learned a couple weeks ago that an entire 90% of hospital births here are to single mothers, and at one of the public housing departments here there is an entirety of two couples in the entire place, the rest are single parents. I wish I could say that was the worst of it, but this week has proved me wrong. Starting Monday, there was a shooting, and two young children were hit. One, a little girl, was killed and the little boy was hurt, but survived. It took a couple days, but those shooters were caught. A different group did another shooting last night, and a man was shot in the back and killed. There was another shooting this morning, and luckily no one was hurt, but the police dont know yet who has done those shootings, and I'm scared that they may continue. One of the local people here told me that there has only been such a series of shootings in three years, and that was because of gang things, but no one is yet sure why these are happening. The way things are going, the only thing I can ask is please, please pray for Helena. It's been raining all day, and as much as I'm sad that means we can't do any lessons at the pool, I'm praying that means the shooters will be discouraged from coming out any more.