Whether they ran away from an abusive home, or were orphaned and fled from an orphanage, or turned out to the streets by a government orphanage when they turned eighteen, or were abandoned by their parents, or left home for other reasons, they have one common life, a life of hopelessness.

Once on the street, they have one goal, survival. Begging, stealing, and self defense become imperative. They find "friends" to look out for them in return for something, whether it's sex, or money, or drugs, its a way of life on the street.

"On the Street" may be a misleading phrase, for many live under the street, in the sewer ducts and canals, under bridges, and in abandoned buildings. Here they fight for survival, and huff Aurolac, a silver paint, to get high, they eat what little they can find, and have babies.

These are the forgotten ones, the outcasts. There is no government provision for this group. They are truly on their own. Sadly, the huffing of glue or paint damages their minds so fast, that there is little hope for them to be able to ever recover completely. But they are not without hope.

These outcasts... "the least of the least", these children of the night, are loved by a Heavenly Father that sees them as children, and has said, "Inasmuch as you have done it unto the least of these, you have done it unto me!"

What can be done for them? Jubilee Ministries is one answer. Young girls, prime targets for the pimps and human traffickers, can be taken off the streets, and given safe homes where they won't be raped or sold. They can receive education and instruction, and be shown the love of Christ in the Gospel.

Some may return to the streets and seem to be a lost cause, but only when we look at it with our own eyes, not with God's eyes. For many go back to the streets, and then return to Jubilee again. And some, as incomprehensible as it may seem to us, will return to the streets, even after coming to faith in Christ. But they go back with the knowledge and hope of a loving God and Father.

When we see the parable of the Great Banquet in Luke 14, Jesus was clearly including the street kids and orphans of Romania when he said, "Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame..." there was room enough for more even after, and he went on to say, "...to the roads and country lanes and make them come in, so that my house will be full."

Go to the street kids and orphans in Bucharest, and bring them in! They are invited to the Household of God!