First day at the Center

It was awesome!!

We had our first day to serve at the center and our church was really used by God. Thankfully, it was kind of a slow starting day so we were not swamped with people right off the bat. We were hearing about a cookout in Laurel that invited homeless people from the area. This ended up enabling us to have a very smooth and quiet opening day.

We had so many volunteers everyone was able to focus on whatever job they had to do. These jobs included organizing the food pantry and clothes closet, serving food, transportation and just talking to all our new friends.

Funny thing is that I actually had a dream the night before about the Day Center. I was not nervous, I was excited!! The only real thing I remember about the dream was the feeling that everything was going smoothly and everyone was simply doing their job, and that is exactly what happened.

The other funny thing is that the day before in Lifeline, our discussion was about how God speaks to us. Of course one of those ways is through dreams and I remember telling the class that I have never had God speak to me that way!! As usual, God taught me a lesson.

At the end of the day, we realized we served 27 people in all and that fits with the average for that day. Our slow start was another gift from God.

Other things I noticed
- I truly saw the body of Christ in action. So many different people with different gifts all working together. What an image.
- We even got to help out at a traffic accident on Route 1 right in front of the center.
- The homeless friends were very impressed with our food and our love we shared with all
- A people were so grateful to serve, many could hardly put it into words
- I saw a different side of people as they were being used by God
- I heard how God had been working in the lives of several people to serve in this ministry way before we even knew we would be in this ministry