....and if He does, we'll probably go with His.

Tuesday Night 3/4/08



What a good night. The weather was supposed to be horrible and it might have been horrible somewhere, but we were fine. No rain at all at the first stop, but we saw some drops as we were leaving so we pulled up into the LEC parking deck and made up carryout plates for the next stop. We had spaghetti, salad, bread and cake tonight (see previous blog for how God provided the meal). By the time we got to the Mercy House, it was sprinkling a little bit so we handed out the plates from the back of Twig's truck and poured drinks underneath the porch. A little tight but no problem.



We had about 20 at the first stop and gave out about 48 -50 plates at the second, which is a decent amount when you factor in the weather and the fact that it's the 1st of the month. The 1st of the month is usually a smaller # of people because some get checks and have some money to get off the street for a little while. At least that used to hold true, but in the past year I really haven't noticed a decline at the beginning of a month.



The # helping tonight was a little less than usual, for reasons varied and unknown.


Some I do know:


Pruden was in a wreck Monday. She's OK and doing better than her car. Pray for her.


Theresa was home with her husband who had seen the doctor that day. Pray for them.

Ryan and Ayla had a "Band thing"


Craig comes with Pruden so he wasn't here tonight.


Jim Morgan was recuperating from that strenuous TV interview the day before.


........and everyone else had great reasons, I'm sure.





We ran a 8 man wrecking crew tonight to get it done:


Henry Liverman


Luann Liverman


Ellen Liverman


Tom Hodges


Bryan Campbell


Jane


Twig


Talked to several folks tonight with requests. One gentleman has a money dispute with a local agency he would like to resolve tomorrow. Two others asked for prayer as they try to get to Florida. One of our regular friends has been sober for 21 days and we celebrated that with him and continue to pray for him during the week to be strong and sober. All of our friends on Tuesday night have needs, even if they don't get spoken out loud. If you are able to remember them during the week as you pray, that would be great.



A neat "ripple effect" of Tuesday nights is that Bryan Campbell takes our leftover desserts and sweets with her and distributes them to the clients at The Literacy Council when she volunteers there on Thursdays. It's a small gesture but she says they are very appreciative of it. Thanks to Bryan for being willing to do it.



Another very nice thing was done by Theresa Bland not too long ago. Theresa is the the coordinator for Parent Volunteers in the office at New Hanover High School. She organized a sock drive among the parent volunteers. The socks were specifically for our friends on Tuesday. She didn't even tell me about it until it was underway. We got alot of nice socks. It was very nice of Theresa to do that.

Alot of nice people come and help on Tuesday nights. Feel free to come be one of them.

All right... next week....it's on.
I've been talking about it.
Been wanting to do it.
Trying to find a way to work it in.
After almost a year, it looks like we might actually do........

CHEESEBURGERS!!!!!!
Man,...back in the day,....they were an every other week staple! I loved getting on that old griddle in the kitchen at the AC and cranking 'em out. It's a little more expensive now with bigger numbers, but I think we might be good for next week. ( If we aren't, I'll be one sad sonofagun.)

But that's my plan. God might have a different one.......

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