pretty awesome to watch Love like that in action on a regular basis.

What a good night! It just was. I couldn't tell you any one huge thing that made it that way but all the little things taken collectively made it that way. Which is good because that means it was a constant stream of good things all night long.

One of the things that made it so good tonight was the work we had to do to fix the meal. We were hopping from start to finish.
We had EGG SALAD SANDWICHES
FRIED BOLOGNA SANDWICHES
TOMATO SOUP
DESSERTS
SWEET TEA
WATER
.....which meant we had to fry about 250 pieces of bologna, boil 170 eggs, toast about 200 pieces of bread (for the egg salad sandwiches. Fried bologna got it straight out of the bag), make 5 gallons of tomato soup, and make 6 gallons of tea. This is how busy we had it tonight; at one point even Brien and Teresa were peeling eggs, and they usually stick to washing and drying during that part of the night!

I didn't think there was a toaster downtown so I was prepared to put all the sandwiches on plain white bread, but Meredith Stricker saw a toaster up under a counter where I would not have looked so......BOOM! ...we started toasting. It was a 4-slotter. How would you like to toast 200 pieces of bread, 4 at a time? That's pretty much what Meredith did. It might've been boring, but it sure smelled good over there.

Meredith used to be Meredith Lynch until she got married and now she lives in Boston with "Chuck". She's been in town for her brother's wedding. I always call her up when we go see the Red Sox play. This summer I got up with them and they took me to a great pizza place near their house. So how do I repay her? By feeding her egg salad and fried bologna, but making her toast bread and peel eggs first. I'm a heck of a guy.

In addition to MEREDITH, tonight there was PEYSON CAMERON PRUDEN CRAIG ANNA BRIEN TERESA MORGAN ANNA (morgan's friend) ELLEN JOHN TWIG MICHAEL JON HILL DAVE FRANK MARY ALAN CANDACE LAURA me working in the Kingdom.

It wasn't a big crowd at the 1st stop but there were 40 in line at the 2nd before we said grace and at least 20 walked up after that.

It won't be long before people will be needing blankets and gloves and toboggans and socks. We will pass those things out as we get them. Right now we just have a few hoodies and a couple of blankets. We pray that God will provide in the way he chooses this winter to help us continue to meet the needs of the folks he sends our way. If you're reading this and want to help in some way, just contact me, Twig or anyone else that comes on Tuesday nights. Everything is appreciated. And feel free to come help us, too.

If you know any of the folks that were here tonight, ask them why they come.
Ask them what they get from it.
Ask them how they feel when they meet someone's need out on the street.
I'm floored by how great these people are at giving their selves away on Tuesday night.
At how caring they are to the people that walk up.
At how good they are at showing God's love to every one that comes throught the line.
It's ....