One the street at 21

I shared with a young man named Mike last night at Food for life. He was there early at 6 and looked lost and new so i asked for his name and shook his hand. He asked if it was ok if he was there.. i said that was fine. I asked if he would sit down and share his story with me. And that took us for a 2 hour ride. Mike was into drugs at the age of 12. He said it went from being a "big deal" to later down the road watching the rerun of an old t.v. show you don't even like. He said that he began to be isolated from old friends and then it was just a couple of them and then he was alone more and more. But to be on the streets was the farthest thing from his mind. It wasn't until he was fired from his most recent decent job that he said he snapped. He said he went on drinking binges and using... He couldn't handle the stress. He was kicked out of his house, lost his car and more all in a matter of a few weeks. He ended up out on the street looking for a place to stay dry carrying everything he owned.

I asked Mike if he knew why all that happened to him. He said it was because he was stupid. I said all of us are stupid and do dumb things that's not the answer. I asked him if he went to Sunday school when he was a kid. He said he did. I asked if he remembered the story of the wise man and the foolish man. This is where the foolish man placed his hope in anything but God (sand) and the wise man placed his hope in God alone and first (rock). I then explained that He had been placing all his "hope" in his job instead of where God designed it to be. So when the storm came he went bezerk and couldn't handle it. He said life isn't like the movies huh? I said no, movies are for entertainment not for how to live. The Bible is for how to teach us to live.

Mike said that he said a prayer last night all of his own accord. I hope in God that 10 years down the road Mike will look back and say WOW look what God has done in my life. What about you? Can you look back and say, WOW? If not, you and I can "repent" or change our minds and start to put our confidence in God first and the gospel of Jesus and then build your house of expectations carefully on the Rock. So if a hurricane comes on shore we will be left standing and not be washed away.

- Dan

Volunteers to Post

It has been weeks since we have posted on this blog. It is not because there is a nothing to say, it is just finding the time. However, we continue to meet every week and feed the homeless and share the gospel. This week we served 85 meals.

In the future we will be asking some of our volunteers to post weekly sharing their own experiences and how God is using them to change others lives. I look forward to reading these reports each week.
~Marc