Sunny Sunday

This is Sam and Paige. Paige is one of our regulars. She is always the first one to arrive to church each Sunday morning. She told me that she had been reading the pretty purple Bible we gave her. She is just the sweetest thing. I loved her pink hair bow and shiny shoes!
The man in the blue came two weeks ago, then was arrested and put in jail last week and spent 8 days in there. He was arrested for being homeless. Every now and then, the city will come through and arrest all the homeless people they can get their hands on. This clean-sweep usually proceeds a big event that brings tourists. I imagine this time it was the river races. Well, he came back this week and this time he brought a friend, the man in the purple. He really enjoyed Frank's preaching. When we told him we will only be down on SUNNY Sundays, he said if it rained, we need to put a sign up to tell him where we are meeting....in other words....he wants to keep coming no matter where we meet....and we should not let a little rain keep us from coming down. He was totally eating the Word today!


One of the men today said that when he stays at one of our local homeless shelters, he is forced to go to church. That's how it works there, they make 'em go to their church services. I think that's a good idea, and we have seen fruit from those efforts in the countless homeless men who are well versed in the scriptures. However, this man, he is no doubt lost. But he did say today that what he liked about coming to our church was that he wasn't forced to come, he could come if he wanted to. And he said, "I wanted to." Kinda a big deal here for a man who wouldn't ordinarily enter a church somewhere. Bless his heart, he even apologized for being dirty.

This morning we had about 20 people for church service. Even "Lucifer" showed up again. I think that's super cool. God is after this man's heart. We fed McDs sausage biscuits and donuts to lots of hungry folks and prayed for a lot of hurting people. I just love how God loves on people through his people. I'm so proud of our team and their ability to express the LOVE of God to the poor. This is God's heart.