God has done A LOT through our group over the past two years.
We have gone from 3 people timidly going around town handing out food, to a van full of youth and cars of adults going to feed and spend time with the homeless at City Hall, of all places. We’ve started integrating devotions and prayer in our time with the needy and the homeless. More important, we’re there and constant.
While I participate and lead short-term mission trips around South America, I strongly believe that missions, in view of the Great Commission and the Greatest Commandment, is more than a week’s visit and a week’s worth of work.
It’s relationship. It’s reliability.
That’s what we are trying to accomplish with our homeless ministry. Jesus never leaves us or forsakes us, so we ought to never leave nor forsake our neighbors. And, by the way, my neighbor isn’t just my best friend next door. It’s the person that I can’t stand to be around. It’s the person that makes me uncomfortable. It’s the person that I choose not to hang out with. It’s the person society rejects. It’s the person you just don’t understand. It’s every man and every woman.
The more we let Jesus work through us and the more we work outside of our comfort zone, the easier it is. We just need to be willing and pliable vessels for Jesus.
