A third solution to the growing problem of children at risk is for mission agencies to re-evaluate their mission focus in light of this pressing need. In Colombia, several missions have begun the effort. Other missions anticipate support in the future. Agencies might consider including a children s helps ministry within the evangelistic component of their labors. The struggle Would-be urban missionaries need to be aware, however, that Satan is the principal adversary of those working with disadvantaged children on city streets around the world.
Urban streets belong to the enemy.
If there is one thing required more than any other in the church today, it is that we Christians provide a united front. The need is for a unified response by God's people to form platoon groups to reconnoiter the enemy's stronghold on the city streets of the world and then design a strategy for reaching the children on those streets. Urban missionaries involved in child evangelism are soldiers in a vivid fight against superhuman forces of evil. God's word describes this struggle in Ephesians 6. This confrontation takes place all the time on the streets in this dark world.