Review: Agape love in action!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2012
While written as fiction, this book is based on true experiences of short term missionaries among the street boys near Lima, Peru.  The life these children have to live to hope to survive is horrific.  They are truly outcasts who fear anyone who attempts to help them.  Agape is the only love that stands any chance of reaching them because they have been so abused.  Even then, there are more failures than successes.The beauty of this book is in having every chapter begin with Scripture that is exemplified in that chapter.  It keeps the reader focused on the One who can truly help these boys, and each of us.  Also each chapter speaks from the perspective of a particular character of the story.  Eva, the short term missionary  learns that she needs to forgive herself just much as the street boys need to accept forgiveness.This book will open your eyes to a horror of poverty many find hard to believe, yet it exists to one extent or another throughout the world, not just in this one part of Peru. It will be well worth your time to read this book.There have been some typographical errors made in the Kindle edition, particularly in the later chapters.  However, it is easy to ignore them and read for the story itself.