One of the things that we as a team and also we, as a family had been praying about was that God would prepare the hearts of the people at the apartment complex for our arrival. Personally, I tried to imagine how these folks would receive a bunch of strangers in a church bus coming into their home and telling them about Jesus. In my mind, it didn't always go so well!
But our prayers were answered far beyond what we could imagine and from the moment we arrived, our team was welcomed literally with open arms.
The purpose of our first trip to the apartments was to hand out fliers and also deliver a bag of groceries to each apartment. As we pulled in, the residents who were out side waved and smiled. It wasn't long before many of the kids who lived there were outside with us, helping us go door to door. They wanted to be a part of what we were doing, eagar to carry the bags or just walk along side us.
And isn't that what it is all about...we weren't team of people swooping in to deliver these folks from their life of woes. We were just people of different ages and backgrounds, who had been sent by our Lord to walk along side these precious families and share with them the hope that we had found in Jesus Christ.
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I am so glad to be reading stories from your trip! God was an obvious part of your preparation as well as traveling on the church bus with you! Isn't is wonderful to be apart of His perfect plan?!
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