Tomorrow (10-2-08) is the 40th anniversary of the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City (http://events.mx.msn.com/Matanza68.aspx).  Interestingly, I was there!  I was only 3 years old but I was there.  I often saw students who would overturn city buses and burn them in the street as demonstrations, police who would respond with tear gas.  My mom, my brother and I would be walking down the street and she would grab us to run for cover.  Students would often run from police into churches to hide.  On October 2, 1968 my parents and I were at a revival in a church from where we heard the shooting of the Mexican army that killed untold numbers of unarmed students.  Some students came running into the church during the revival and heard the gospel preached.  Some people say that the reason Mexico did not become communist like Cuba is because president Diaz Ordaz squelched the student revolution.  But these students were unarmed and were not looking for a military revolution but for a demonstration that would bring about change.  Today, 40 years later, there is still political, economic and religious turmoil and uncertainty in Mexico, the U.S. and in most of the world.  There are still young people who are looking for change and for an answer.  The only hope and the only answer is Jesus Christ.  Let us pray for our children, our youth, our nation and our world that they may come to know the true answer! (John 14:6)  Let us strive to find ways to bring about social justice in the name of Christ that there may be peace on earth!

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