Trip to D-Town

10.9.10

As part of the Homeless Outreach and Ministry Equipped (H.O.M.E.) we travel to Detroit every month and spread the love of God to the homeless.  We pass out lunches filled with love along with bottles of water and the daily necessities for the homeless.  What I took part of was an amazing way to talk to people who do not always have someone there and to reassure people on the streets that God loves them and there is hope in every situation. 

Our group teamed up with CMU's His House and we all traveled to Detroit on Saturday.  I was a little apprehensive once we got to downtown Detroit.  I am not going to lie, I was shaking a little bit with fear.  But then I had to stop and remember that fear is a sin.  Why fear when God has everything under control, so I gave Him my fears and allowed Him to guide my feet.

It was very surprising to me just how nice and receptive these people on the streets were.  Once we asked them if there was anything we could pray for them about, they basically knew we were there to spread God's joy and love.  We did not have a single person who did not want us to pray for them.  I met some guys who spoke Spanish so I really enjoyed that time I got to spend with them talking in Spanish.

Being on a trip like that takes a lot of faith.  I believe that God put every person that we met in our path for a reason though and hopefully we will see the people when we go back even more encouraged and excited about God.  Being on that trip would obviously make you very fortunate for what you have.  It definitely humbled my views and brought me back down to Earth.   But going on that trip did not just take a lot of faith from me and show me just how good I have it, but it showed me even more so not to settle with my relationship with God.  That night as I was driving home the Lord told me to get baptized and that is just what I did the next day....