Work Days Tuesday and Wednesday July 22 & 23, 2008
I want to start this entry by saying God’s love is extravagant! Bridge of Hope has felt such an extravagant love this week through His people at Real Life Church! We are learning so much about the body of Christ and how truly we must work together to accomplish great things for the kingdom of God. It has been beautiful to see this group serve the community that we have grown to love and use their talents and gifts to the table and make it all happen.
First I will make the INSANE list of accomplishments as far as “labor” and then share the relational that happened on the streets and one on one with the neighborhood people and children.
*Installed second donated playground next to the other playground (which included powerwashing and staining, boxing it in with timbers, and reconfiguring the whole thing)
*Tuck pointing the church (thanks girls!!)
*Ladies bathroom drywall repaired
*Ceiling hole patched in foyer
*Drywall back up in men’s bathroom and new drain put in
*stained stages
*more abandon lots totally cleared! (clean abandon lots means less places for drug transactions)
After a full day of work the Real Life group joined Bridge of Hope for our usual tuesday night street ministry. Melissa Dishert of Ferguson Church has been so awesome to screen Bridge of Hope t-shirts for us and she came through again for t-shirts for the group. She arrived with them (along with soda and freezer pops) just in time to hit the streets. Our goal that evening was to go to the remaining homes of our VBS kids and see if they were interested in our backpack drive. We divided up and each took an area of the neighborhood. The groups met lots of new families and 80 MORE KIDS are getting backpacks for school. Praise God. The teens hearts were broken with the things that break Jesus’ heart. I believe they were stretched out of their comfort zone and God saw their openness and gave them news eyes for the people that may look different from them. The stories when the group debriefed that night gave the week so much more meaning to serving than just the extreme hard work they had all done. Some may never be the same and we pray that they will never stop praying for those faces.
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