A Public Service Announcement for CharMin Ultra

Actually, the title is a lie - but it's the closest thing I could come up with to hint at one of the coolest things that have happened so far. But I'll get to that in a minute.

Week 10 saw a BUNCH of interesting things happen:

Archie, from a few weeks ago, was back at the station. No longer on crutches, and he HAS found a part-time job. Still doesn't really have a place to live, but is working on getting into the uptown men's shelter and hopefully will be able to grow from that base.

God's blessing Archie.

Niema, a woman with 4 kids is going to come to our corps on Sunday morning. We got to pray with her and she was real excited about getting to the corps. I'll keep you posted.

One of the CATS employees wanted our contact info. Apparently, his wife is REALLY interested in helping out this ministry. We know a number of people from our corps continue to support this ministry with prayer as well.

AND FINALLY . . . you'll remember reading about Officer Willis. If not, look back over a couple of posts. He's the bulldog security guard that never speaks and LOVES hot chocolate. There's a public address system at the station that we've rarely heard used. In fact, I've only ever heard it used if someone is doing something wrong and the guards need to call attention to it. Example: there are no cars allowed in the bus shelter - anytime there is a car in there, an announcement is made over the PA system. The problem is, it's a big boomy area with pretty poor acoustics - I can NEVER really understand what's being said.

So, this week, just as we were getting close to finishing, we hear this long announcement. As you would suspect, we couldn't make out what was being said, except that there was something about Hot Chocolate. The couple I was speaking with, Rachel and Colby, asked if they were telling us to stop. We didn't think that could be it, because they guards are SO supportive of us.

So we go in . . . and bring some HC with us, JUST in case. Turns out, Willis just wanted us to leave some for the third shift, because we would be gone by the time they got to work. It's incredible. We go into to the security office and they just buzz the door open for us when they see us coming. There are some incredibly interesting relationships being built.

Grace.