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

Seeing the troubling report about the street people stirred Dot’s heart and soul. Although she began to pray for all the desperate people on the streets who were possibly facing the coldest night in recent history, she knew it was not enough to only pray for them. This was a time for immediate action. She told me of the forecast she had seen and how authorities predicted many people on the streets may die overnight. She said, “We have to do something.” There was no time to waste. She suggested we cook up a huge pot of homemade beef stew, perk an Igloo jug full of hot coffee and go downtown to the streets, comfort and minister to those precious people who were freezing with no way to stay warm. Our burden is always to introduce people on the streets to Jesus. It dawned on me that it would be a greater possibility to get them saved if we first kept them alive. We knew we had to literally fight to keep some of these homeless people alive through the night, so we would have opportunities to talk to them about Jesus. As always, God gave us His plan. As always, His plan involved ordinary people who are willing to follow Him. Fortunately, Dot and I made an agreement. I would go shopping for all the food we needed, and she would cook it. We felt like this was a good arrangement, as my cooking could actually HARM, rather than HELP those in need! I hurried to the local supermarket. Dot and I had decided to prepare a street meal fit for a king. When we serve Jesus, we need to be reminded we are serving The King. Unfortunately, so many times the food and clothing that groups offer street people and the homeless are things they would never eat or wear themselves.

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