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

Plus, more praise report, his body was recovered intact . Rescue workers had found Uhuru and brought him out from beneath the smoldering rubble of the World Trade Center, flag-draped with bagpipes playing Amazing Grace, as so many we had seen before had been brought out. As thankful as I was for Anane and her family that Officer Houston had been recovered, I had to leave the church and call Dot. I was a bit teary-eyed as I talked to her and told her, “You know things are really bad here when the praise report is ‘They found his body.’ ” My heart was breaking. I knew the only way to lift the heaviness that was trying to descend upon us was to hit the streets of The City and lift up Jesus, singing praise to His Name. So, we turned out the lights to the sanctuary and hit the streets for Jesus. Over the next several days, Pastor Rick and the Ground Zero Task Force worked tirelessly to serve the City of New York and to be a redemptive voice to The City and the world. I remembered telling the congregation when I preached on Sunday, “No nuclear bomb can shake the Throne of God.” In the areas we were allowed into to minister, you would think a nuclear bomb had actually gone off. W.V.’s prophetic words continued to ring true, destruction had come to America. Even though we had special privileges to go into secured areas around Ground Zero because of Pastor Rick’s relationship with the NYPD, the Lord directed Pastor Rick to wear a white clerical collar which immediately identified him to emergency workers and rescue personnel as a Clergyman.

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