Sorry for no blog last night. We got in real late and everyone was tired. The students wrote some great posts so I won't take much time.
This whole trip has been an amazing experience, but there are some things that really stand out. When we are on the streets it is so sad to see the people living like that. I know that sometimes they put themselves in the situation. There are also some people that just got unlucky, they either had a natural disaster happen to their house or they got their ID stolen. I met a lady on the streets who kept thinking I was her daughter. It broke my heart because I knew she wanted to be by her daughter. She had made bad choices in her life but had turned things around and is slowly getting back on her feet. I have also met people that were very drunk while I was talking to them. It is a little bit scary to see them like that because they don’t know what they are doing. You want to help them but you know you can’t. I just felt so helpless, even though they got them selves in that situation. God has definitely worked in me during this trip. He has broken my heart and let me walk in their shoes. I don’t think I have ever been more touched in my life; I almost want to give a lot of my stuff away. I have realized that we take everything for granted. I have seen the people on the streets get a pair of socks and they shout for joy. I met an adult man who found a baby toy that lit up and they were so excited that they found something to play with. That just shows you how much we have, and how much they don’t have. It really breaks my heart.
God has also let me experience beautiful things. While we were at the beach I had the opportunity to get baptized. I got baptized when I was 2 months old. I felt like I was not old enough to really have dedicated my life to Jesus. So even though I was already baptized I still wanted to do it again. So we did it in the ocean, and it was a great experience. When I came out of the water I knew that I was really and truly dedicated to Jesus. It made me feel so good to know that everyone else knew it too. It was such a great experience to be working for God and getting baptized in one of his greatest creations. Now that I am truly baptized I am going to try to do everything in Gods name. I will read the Bible every morning and worship him always, even through the hard times.
Kenna Luft =)
Well it’s Thursday and im tired, the more tired I get the taller John becomes. The more I get to know the people on the streets the more I realized that they are not so bad, and I wish that all of you could have the chance to experience what is going on in the lives and hearts of these people. Every morning, and night we have the amazing opportunity to eat the wonderful food of my friend J.C. If you all could see and hear all the situations that are happening, you would truly be changed as well as I know the rest of us are. It is hard to understand how and why these people are on the streets. Well, today is shower day so I got to go.
Puggles rule!!,
Jonathan Ryan mcawesome best jr. the third.
Ok. So today is Day 5 of our ministering to the homeless and it’s our last day ): I went on the trip last year and there was definitely some crazy things that happened but I feel like last year for me wasn’t revolved around God as much as it should be. I think it was more like “Well, who has the saddest story and who can tell it about?” This year I haven’t met as many people that have sad stories but I have met some that have drastically changed the way that I have been acting and the way I see things.
On Tuesday, we went to the Plaza Hotel, which is a low-income hotel, and we served a dinner and a bible study to the homeless. That night was when pretty much everything had changed for me. We talked with some people and that was when everyone broke down and started crying. I think what really broke my heart for these people was how much of a selfish person I have been. Almost every person I talked to said they were having a good day or that they had nothing to complain about because they were blessed. I don’t understand how they could say they are blessed when they are living on the streets with almost nothing. I mean when something is going wrong in my life, I don’t say that I’m alright and that I’m blessed, I usually sulk and cry about it.
Something that really hit me hard yesterday was when I met a REALLY old lady and her husband. We were walking by and we were handing out care packages, which are bags with toothpaste, water, granola bars, socks etc… to people we met. It looked like her and her husband were sleeping but when I walked by she sat up and reached out to me so that I wouldn’t walk by and not see her. I gave her two for her and her husband and began talking with her. I asked her how she was doing and she said that she wasn’t doing very well. She told me that her house had burnt down to the ground and they had lost everything. She began crying when she was telling me that so I prayed for her. I finished praying and started to stand up because I thought I was done but then she started praying almost kind of begging for God to have mercy on her. That totally broke my heart. I started crying and made sure that she knew that I would be praying for her. Now they are stuck on the streets probably for the rest of their lives because they are too old to be able to do any work. I ask that you guys keep her in her prayers. Her name is Eleanor. I’m definitely glad that I had met her because that helped me realize that what I have now is an absolute luxury because some people may not ever be able to have what we have now.
Katy Clasquin =D
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