“You wait here” is a typical instruction given by parents to countless children every day, but this time it was different. The 12 year old boy followed his mother’s instruction and continued to sit on the side of the road in the hot Florida sun. He sat there for three days and nights remembering the last words his mother said, “I can’t do this anymore. You wait here.”
Bill Wilson, founder of Metro Ministries, continues, “My mom never came back. That’s the beginning of my story and it’s the same one we hear in the inner city of New York over and over again. It’s about thousands of kids who have been abandoned by society. That’s why we’ve been working in the city for so long. They need more. They need to be safe and well fed. They need a family. And they need something more . . . they need God