How to be inconvienced
It was a pretty cold Sunday afternoon in April 2008. It was snowing in fact. I and a friend were playing Pro Evo on the Playstation. Fed up of winning, I spontaneously suggested we go into the City Centre and take a homeless guy out for lunch. It was so incredibly random and did not fit in with the days plan. Anyway he agreed and we went. We looked around the whole City Centre and could find no homeless!! It was snowing so maybe they went somewhere out of the cold. In the mean time we decide to pray for our City as we’re going along.
During these moments God really lay on our hearts to keep looking. We were wet, cold and hungry but God wanted to inconvenience us. Moments later we see a man going through a bin and looking for cigarette butts. We started to get excited because we’d finally we’ve found ‘the one.’ We followed him for a while as we discussed how best to approach him, as we walked over he was having a wee so we just didn’t move for a few seconds. After he’d completed his task, I just said ‘hey man, wanna go for something to eat?’ he looked startled. I mean bit random isn’t it. From his point of view ‘just had a wee, being stalked by two young hoodlums.’
We introduced ourselves and we went to KFC. He was so shocked. His name was Dave (later known as homeless Dave and then Homie Dave) We just talked and let him eat as much as he wanted. We just said we were from church and he should know is a God who loves him. We didn’t go too much into the ‘God stuff’ – we didn’t have too because we were living it and showing it through our actions. We asked Dave to come church that night, he did and asked Jesus into his life.
From that moment onwards, week I, week out we have been to the City centre and fed the homeless from a sandwich picnic bag and flask of coffee to now currently having 10+ volunteers every week and feeding between 40 – 70 people.
