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

Their excited response was almost like seeing the dead raised! We set up a folding table alongside the van for the coffee and erected an eight-foot cafeteria style table and covered it with bowls of steaming hot beef stew and cornbread. As the people cheerfully and gratefully received the food, I had never seen such joy. They were happy to see they were not completely forgotten. One man blessed us as he excitedly commented the stew and cornbread tasted just like what his Mama had made for him as a child. As Dot and the girls handed out the hot food and warm smiles, I prayed for each precious person, and we gave them Bibles. We assured them Jesus had not forgotten them and that He loved them enough to lay his own life down for them. Some prayed to receive Him as Lord and Savior. Others prayed to the Lord for safety and survival. While downtown, we met a young teenaged girl who was also sleeping on the bitter cold streets. Although she was homeless and without anything or anyone, she had the greatest smile we had ever seen. We talked to her about Jesus and prayed for her. As I put my arms around her with the love of Jesus, my heart broke for her. I know she is precious in Jesus’ sight. She was sleeping on a big, flattened out piece of cardboard and she was using the frozen concrete parking curb for her pillow. I was so touched by her plight, after returning home I wrote a song about her entitled, “Concrete Pillow.” I can still see her ra diant smile to this day!

We hugged the homeless people we had just met and told them goodnight, loaded up our van and

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