Sunday morning, when a family is standing on the side of the raod asking for help. July 25, 2010

We drove to church this morning, and passed a family, sitting outside the car holding up a sign that read "we need help" WWJD? We kept driving to church. We pulled into the church parking lot at Mountain Lake Church and felt compelled to pray for this family. My husband and I were moved by the spirit during the prayer to leave right at that moment, to go and see what kind of help they needed. The man was on oxygen, the wife was sitting beside him and their 13 year old daughter was sitting in the drivers seat. He said he had gone to many churches for help, but none would help him. He seemed very bitter towards the church. Another man was there too asking what he could do for them, this man said he would help them. He told us a number of things he needed. His car need fixing, his trailer that they were living in needed to be shored-up, he needed a tire for his car for one was in really bad shape and he needed his tanks to be filled. His wife lost her job and he can't work because of his health. Another man came up and said he was led to turn around to help them. He gave them some money, and he said he lost his 21 year old son in January. You could see the pain in his eyes. We left to go get some money, we returned and they were still sitting there, we prayed with them and handed them an envelope. I said "do you have a relationship with Jesus" and he said yes. I said to them "put your trust in God not man or a church, because sometimes they will let you down." That is why so many people walk away from God. I said, "trust God to do a work in people, to minister to you." I wrote his name, number and address down and the other man who was standing there to see if we could get more help for them. What would you have done? There are so many people hurting out there today. We were hurting pretty bad too when Jeff was out of work for 9 months. We are still not back to normal yet, but we are working on it, there is always someone worse off than you. So what would you have done, just curious?

For lunch today, I used the leftovers from last night. I made mini steak sandwiches with a homemade blue cheese sauce. This was very good!!