25 Years of Witnessing to the Word in Thailand 193 housing eight children each; a staff building; and a multiple use center with a kitchen, television, computers, and game tables. The facility would give the residents a home-like setting in which to develop as normal teenagers. They would have opportunities to learn a trade so they could become self-reliant young adults. The Thai government would supply the medication that must be administered twice daily. We decided we wanted to be involved in bringing this home for youth with HIV into reality. Inspired by his mother and her humble origins My mother passed away six months before my first meeting with Bro. Damien. She had a long and rewarding life until her death at the age of ninety-four. Mom was blessed with both longevity and prosperity, and in her waning years, we discussed giving an appropriate gift to a mission charity. Mother often recalled her days as a youth growing up on the near west side of Chicago in the 1920s. This was the Chicago of prohibition and the gangsters that gave Chicago its reputation. My mother told me about the ice man and his delivery truck, coal trucks, local bakers and butchers, cobblers, and a period
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