The Police and Peggy

We had another great night of ministry and relationship builiding. Starting at the corps. We had a great discussion with the rest of our Bible study group from which this ministry was birthed . . . I think it cleared up a bunch of confusion that may have been hanging over this whole thing.

Then we hit the bus station again . . . just a little after 9:00. As normal, it started with us just handing out hot chocolate. It's always funny to see people who intially don't want any who then see that it's free . . .

In any case, we had pretty much run out of hot chocolate again . . . when we got talking with Sgt. Bennett (from CMPD). He had been policing around the bus station for the past few weeks while we've been there. Last week I understand, that he seemed a little skeptical . . . or cautious about our efforts. And he wanted unsweetened hot chocolate.

So this week when we came back and got talking to him, and Tilden made a point of bringing him an unsweetened hot chocolate, he seemd to change just a little. Stephanie and I talked to him for quite a while . . . . seems like a great guy. We'll keep seeing him.

Then Tilden came out from inside the depot and says, "Do you wanna pray with someone?" Three of us went in and met Peggy. Peggy is a 52 year old wonderful woman who doesn't have any where to live. She's tried some of the shelters, but was just recently kicked out of one. We prayed for her and the Kristy sat and talked with her for what seemed like forever.

Long enough for her to miss her bus.

Luckily we had a van. We ended up driving her across town to where she had some family. Please pray for her!

It's pretty amazing to see the relationships that have already been built just by handing out hot chocolate.

Last thing, I've updated the names over on the right. Keep 'em all in prayer.

Grace, Y'all.