Meet The Kids - Roldan
will try and feature one child per month, if not more often than that. Today I want you to meet Roldan A. Salavar (pictured). In the picture he is actually praying for a sick child at a local hospital; it is not staged. Roldan is thirteen years old and has been in the orphanage from the beginning. He is a talented boy who can dance, sing, and do about anything he puts his mind to. Roldan comes from a broken family and has five siblings, all with the same father and every one of them with a different mother. His father cannot financially support his Roldan, or the other kids for that matter. Because of this, he found himself roaming the streets begging for money and sleeping on cardboard boxes. Two of Roldan’s sisters, Cristina and Anabelle, are also part of the orphanage. You will meet them later. Roldan, like most other thirteen-year-olds, still has much to learn. His attitude, presentation, words, actions and thoughts still need to be surrendered for God to refine, but overall he is a good boy who shows promise of a great future and is learning to love the Lord. He was the second child from the orphanage to go to Frontline Christian Academy. He started at a very low grade, but has already advanced through diagnostic testing with high scores. We are so proud of Roldan and thank the Lord that he is part of what we are doing.
The one thing I admire the most about Roldan is his sensitive heart. The first time I had to correct him he cried. I felt like a “big American bully”! At first I thought it was a tactic to get me to ease up, but over the last year I have learned that when talking to him I must be sensitive to his past and where he is coming from. He has seen pain and loneliness and he understands the importance of working hard for the things you want in life
