Lvoe others

Was this a fast week for all of you? Never enough time it seems to get everything done! But God's work is never done, so we have next week to continue.

We got our week started off great with our breakfast on Saturday. Tim, Sinotra, Myley all helped in preparing biscuits, bacon, eggs and hot coffee. We had a small group but the food went fast. Not much left overs to give away. Join us next month, May 18th.

We had good visits with our friends following breakfast. We even found Richard and he had lots of stories for us! Turner is enjoying his new radio Mr Scott got him, listening to the weather reports every day. Matt and Tim brought several of the guys to the center to wash clothes. Keep Catfish in your prayers, he had a bad week and was not doing well Saturday.

Got a phone call from one of our original group from the Wesleyan community from McNeese College in Lake Charles Monday evening. They want to bring another group the end of May and join in our fun. Very exciting, we have developed great relationships with our first group . Our community will benefit from the new hearts and energy of our new friends. 

Tuesday afternoon, Lomax, Joey, Krysten, Logan and a few others, took the children to Dairy Queen for their field trip, yumm! What a delicious trip that was!

Tuesday evening, Mr Matt led our men's Bible fellowship. Ran out of food because there were so many guys there! More and more men are coming from the various camps. God is working through Tim and Matt as they share their stories with the guys. Very exciting.

Wednesday afternoon, we met a friend at the center to check on our air conditioner units. Our chapel unit was low on freon and we will get that recharged next week. The rest of the units looked ok. God continues to bring folks into our family who want to share their skills with us.

We have lined up our workers for our summer feeding program. All folks from our community, Cornisha, daughter of Vonita, our supervisor, James will be our cook and Jasmine will be our server. This is a great opportunity to give our folks a way to earn some money and provide meals for our community during the summer. Lots of activity will be happening in and around the center this summer.

We talked to our roofer and hopefully in the near future, a new roof will be provided to the Bright House II. The cool thing about our new roof, is we may not have matching shingles! Mr Woods, our roofer is getting the shingles donated and he asked if it was ok if the shingles did not match. We told him, the more color we could get will make our house fit right in!

Thursday afternoon got started off with Abbey and her ladies making grocery bags for the community. We have increased our budget for Mr Scott to purchase more items from the Food Bank. We get more bang for our buck there, so the bags this week was larger than usual, very exciting.

Ms Abbie, Ms Dorothy and a new friend Ms Eloise, led us in music to get our worship started in chapel. Pastor Eddie shared the Word, reading from Psalm 1. Talking about two ways to live. Do we listen to the wicked or do we follow the teachings of the Lord? Mr Tom shared his gifts of cooking and everything was gone by the nights end.

Continue your prayers for Joe and Abbie. Joe came home Monday but is still a long way from feeling his best. Great to have him home, hopefully his recovery will go quicker now. Continue to lift up the Bollingers. Prayers for Mr Scott as he travels to Haiti. Don't know why he continues to go back so many times?! Must be the food or the sunsets! Maybe it's the people? Prayers for the camps as they continue to struggle with the challenges of life. Prayers for us to think of new ways we can bring the Good News to our community.

Matt read from Luke 6 Tuesday evening, talking about loving your enemies and not judging others. Do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you. Don't judge others and you will not be judged. Don't see the dust in your friends eye, without looking at the log in your eye.Hard rules to live by. In fact impossible to follow without Christ in our hearts. 

Our human tendencies are to do the exact opposite. How can we love someone who has wronged us? How can we love someone who calls us names? We can't and I think that is the point. In a world where we live, the world says, do whatever it takes to get ahead. Step over our fellow man, go around our coworker to get to that next step in the corporate ladder. What ever it takes, go for it, no matter who you hurt in the process.

Jesus is telling us, no that is wrong in God's Kingdom. We must lvoe our enemies, we must do good to those who curse us. How do we do that? Because the Holy Spirit is inside of each one of us. It is not mr brian, Momma T, Tim, Abbey that is lvoing others, it is Christ within us. As we begin to allow the Spirit to grow, it will become easier and easier to lvoe others who don't love us. 

Another reminder to me, it is not about mr brian but it is about God. The more we take our selves out of the equation and put Christ in the front, then all things are possible! What a concept! What a way to live and share the lvoe of Christ with others! If we don't do it, then our community will not find it in the world.

Hope your week is full of God's blessings for you and your family. Enjoy every moment, they are special. Amen.