Love and Care!
Wow what a week. I served at Love and Care Ministries on this last week of my sabbatical and man has it been an experience. I admire all the people that work and volunteer for this amazing organization.
My first day, on Monday was a little crazy! The leader of the kitchen (Janet) was on conference Monday and Tuesday but, the awesome volunteers and employees helped me get started and every person got their meals and everything turned out great.
Those of you that know me even a little a bit know that I am a little inquisitive. So, I think to shut me up one awesome lady (Lacey) said hey “Let me just show you around and show you all that goes on here” and so she did. It is an amazing place that helps cloth the homeless, gives them a place to shower, a meal, and prayers. They also give meals and clothes to poor families in this area.
They also have a chaplain that is an awesome sweet man (Sammy).
It has been such a blessing. The people that went through the food line or the people on street feeds were so appreciative and most of them had such a great attitude and so many had a great sense of humor which I love:) What a blessing to meet these people.
Friday was my last day and it was a lunch/street feed. We were preparing to leave when the Director (Mark Hewitt) came over and he went through the history of what was 23 years ago and where it is now and how God has led this ministry. His testimony was awesome! He then gathered everybody together and prayed for us.
And then the best thing happened on this street feed today when we stopped at a house and Janet went and sat with this lady and gentleman that were sitting on the porch. After a while, I was wondering if we were ever going to leave:) A little bit later Janet called us all over and we held hands as Sammy lead the prayer and both of these wonderful people accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior! It was awesome!
There is so much I will remember and cherish about this experience. Every person that I came in contact with during this time was such a huge blessing to me.
I would like to say Thank you to Val, Larry, Lacey, Sammy, Joe, and Paul. A special thank you to Janet for letting me be a small part of your team for a short time and experience a fraction of what ya’ll do and with the people you serve daily! I am blessed to have met all of you.
I have a couple of days to rest my feet (my friends at Love and Care wore me out for real:) . I am thankful!
Prayers for all of the Houston area!