Street Stories - A Ringside Seat To Over 4 Decades Of Taking Jesus To The Streets Of The World

Chapter 1

The Comforter

M any Christians have chosen not to tune in to television news reports, deeming them too depressing and disturbing to watch. Dot and I have discovered daily news reporting can help us compile urgent prayer lists. One such news report during a brutally cold winter in Texas furnished us with a great opportunity not only to pray for those involved, but to also put feet to our prayers. Dot had seen on the local news report that the weather in Dallas would be so cold by nightfall, many street people might actually be found dead the next morning. Because many men and women who live on the streets refuse to go into shelters and stay out of the cold, it was probable some of them would literally freeze to death that night as they slept outside on sidewalks, in back alleys and under bridges. Although inner-city shelters can be a safe haven for many, a portion of the street community are reluctant to go into them because they just cannot handle any form of structure in their lives or a regimented environment. Many of them have all their worldly belongings packed into a shopping cart that they push all over town and guard with their lives. Most shelters require those who enter for an overnight stay to leave their shopping carts full of their worldly possessions outside. Although what they have may not seem like much to many people, this means they lose literally everything they own.

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