Our areas and focus have changed. We had only had 4 families this week in our outreach. We were joined by the Lycans, TJ, Tina, and Sarah. It was great to meet up at the supermarket just off the seminary and start feeding a small group. At first we saw one person, Indio. We ministered to him, served, and loved on him and all of a sudden a family, Maria and her six kids came out. Let's see if I remember their names: Jason, Lexy, Haley, Mia, Maya, and Aaron. It was wonderful to pray for them, but it was even greater to serve them and make them feel loved and significant!
Our second move took us to the Hair Salon (Sam's Salon) just across the street from the Fort Worth Car Wash. We prayed with Susan as well as Claudia. Many of these homeless folk are in distress. I sometimes wonder if they remember us more than we remember them. It's interesting to note, that the men there, also want the prayer and the desire to know Christ. I share with one of the guys and he told me that "Dios loves mi". In his limited english, he had time to share some of that love to us! I'm sure many of us can attest, that we learn more from them, than they from us.
The third area took us to the abandon white house just past Seminary drive on Hemphill street. There at the white house we met Shannon and her lover (for lack of a better term). She's under medication and unfortunately it's hard to tell whether she's being taken advantage of or not. She's totally dependent on this guy taking her around. She has completely incoherent and constantly looking for affection from this guy. She constantly told us how afraid she is of dying. We prayed for her anyway.
The fourth took us all the way back north near Southside COC and served a larger community there. There was up to 20-30 people we served. I met Elgin again, who wanted to be back in Oklahoma and several other guys struggling with finding jobs. Rodney, I believe, still had no eye surgery, and was still blind. There were the usuals there, except we looked for Venita and the two boys along with Liz, neither were there.
We found Steve, Venita's husband in the house, but the kids were not present. His story was that they she left with a crack addict and took the kids with them. He obviously acted like the angel. Liz, was down the street at a massive yellow house, with four other homeless guys. Abbie went and took down her information in regards to her being beat by Jason and being pregnant. She signed some paper work regarding the pregnancy.
There were so many needs, but it was wonderful being able to share the gospel and love on so many. Praise God! Till next time...
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