A Boy Who Overcame Terrifying Events And Became A Mentor

By MAD21

In a previous article, I wrote about one of my favorite ministries, Samaritan's Purse. They recently posted a great article about a 27-year-old boy named Sarko who overcame terrifying events in his life that left him handicapped an orphaned. In "Turning Brokenness Into Blessing" they share:

"The morning of March 16, 1988, started out like any other for young Sarko. He climbed aboard the bus for the ride to school, eager to meet up with friends from his kindergarten class. Several minutes later, there was a massive explosion and screaming. The bus with 30 children aboard had been hit by a missile...he found out he was the only child in the bus who had survived....[and] All of Sarko’s immediate family was dead. His parents and 10 brothers and sisters had been killed in poisonous gas attacks launched on Halabja by Saddam’s military forces on the same day as the bus bombing..."

"[As an adult]...Sarko asked God for one more special request—to give him a ministry among the Kurdish people...Helping handicapped boys and girls became his primary mission. An estimated 3,000 people in Halabja are handicapped, half of them children....[Sarko says his] hope is to continue to make the needs of handicapped children in Kurdistan known to the rest of the world...having been one of those children myself, I know what they are going through and can relate to them better than others.”

Go read about this young man and some of the great things he has done to help the people around him, and show them Christ's face in the process.