This article appeared in our quarterly magazine, Xpress, in September 2005

 By Lucinda Bentley  - Pioneers  team member working with the Quechua people of Bolivia

“Nothing exciting ever happens to me, “ I grumbled, as the ancient, rattling bus carried me toward the Quechua farming center of Quilla Collo.  Later, I figured I must have been dreaming to have made that remark, for I returned from that very bus ride with a premature, one-month old baby in my arms to care for indefinitely.

That tiny Aymara baby boy had been left to smother under heavy woollen blankets on a wet, cold dirt floor.  He was rescued by his great aunt Marta, who named him “Moses”.  Let me tell you his story.

In a country with an HIV infection rate of over 40%, we are involved in 'Love in Action', a church based NGO with a vision to transform communities through the tangible and powerful expression of God's Love.  We do this through health education, training and community development as well as caring for children affected by poverty and AIDS.  Ministering to over 80 children from child headed households, we feed them, disciple them and train them in income generation schemes. We offer crisis care to street children, those suffering abuse, and orphans…will you?