Today, we did a delivery. Since this is a 5th Thursday, we really didn't have to do this, but we decided to go anyway. I also wanted to swing by the Laurel people since we don't see them all that often and we had heard that a large number of them were going to be kicked out of the area they are camped.
We also had a visitor, Maina went with us for the first time to see what is going on in this ministry.
When we went on our visit, I was blown away by the number of tents at this location. There had to be 10 tents and our good friend at that location told us that we could find about 5 other tents just a short walk away. It was amazing.
I met a new person and saw several others that are regulars at the Day Center.
We ended up talking to one of our good friends who calls himself the big brother of that area. He does look out for others. I told him that we just came by to visit and we really did not have enough food for him at that time. The cool thing was that he was totally cool about just visiting. The food was not a big deal. In case you are wondering, the people in Laurel do have other resources for food.
Our homeless friend really enjoyed the visit. In youth group the day before, we ended discovering a Bible we had meant to give him. We wrote his name in the Bible, but, for some reason, never got it to him. He was really happy to receive the Bible and said he would read it.
The lesson for today -- A good sign of a good relationship is if just visiting is OK. We certainly have reached that level of a friendship in this case. God is so good.
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