In Service

still fallen-

had a bit of a challenging session last nite. in all honesty, i have felt truly blessed for the past 8 weeks that things had been going so smoothly, with very few problems, considering that we are sitting in a park in the middle of dc, with the homeless preaching the Gospel... if that doesn't sound like something that the devil would be furious about and try to take advantage of, i don't know what is.

so we showed up and a few of our friends had obviously spent a portion of the day drinking. it is something that we have been working with 2 of them about, and have seen good progress. nonetheless the atmosphere was much more volatale than it had been in past weeks- there were many distractions, outbursts, and just a general difficulty in keeping focus. even so, we got to share part of james, read a psalm and close in prayer. it also gave the opportunity for one of our more quiet friends to speak up a bit more, due to her annoyance of the others. so that was a great positive spill over benefit of the whole situation.

the most moving part of the entire nite though, was in our closing prayer one of the guys asked if he could do it. his prayer was basically thank you that you (me, elizabeth and tasha) are my friends. it just really struck my spirit.

so i ask that you all would continue to pray for covering over us. like i said, it has been such a blessing to have God's mercy upon us thus far. i consider it a huge success that over 9 weeks of meetings that we have only had one nite that has been slightly unruly... and let's be honest, a little drunken arguing is not the worst that we could encounter...

posted by jh @ 10:14 AM