By Dr. Chi Cheng Huang with Irwin Tang
Tyndale, 2006, 296 pp., $19.99, www.tyndale.com
A brilliant, fourth-year med student leaves Harvard Medical School to work with street children in La Paz, Bolivia. He spends the next year learning lessons in frustration, despair, and—finally—hope from walking with his “invisible” children.
In When Invisible Children Sing, Chi Huang tells of how spending time with La Paz street children transformed his life. He asks them to tell their own stories of how they ended up in this hostile world of poverty and abuse. He learns to love and respect them. Fulfilling a promise, he later returns to La Paz and builds a home for such children. He closes with a challenging question: Do you see our invisible children?
This book could be used as part of a teaching series on missions and service to the poor. Dr. Chi’s passion for “the poorest of the poor” started early in his life. God may be shaping the heart of a student in your group for this same calling.
Review by Mary Springston