SUNDAY WORSHIP AND LUNCHEON – BEAUTIFUL AND AMAZING DAY!
Thank you to everyone who joined us this past Sunday in Palatine!!!! Wow! As always, it was a wonderful day together with so much love in the room and overflowing food! A huge thank you to our friends from Our Savior Church who hosted the luncheon and also to everyone else who brought food and visited and served! Our friend Robert, who I met at a local car wash a few months ago, was back again serving his homemade enchiladas! I only bring him up because the story of his being a regular part of our Ministry is undeniably a supernatural work of God because I didn’t find him and his story is such a reminder that when God brings in anyone or anything, He always brings in the BEST! I believe that is how God reveals His heart to us…caring for the ‘least of these’ and ‘loving your neighbor as yourself’ and when Jesus tells us in Luke 14, “But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind (rather than people who will repay you)”. And I am so grateful to each of you because I know God brought you in for His purposes!
| Talk about God bringing in the BEST! This is just a part of our group of volunteers who show up early, set up tables, coffee, bagels, and they are part of the family all afternoon! After the beautiful worship service and luncheon, people helped themselves to clothing and we celebrated birthdays at the end of the day! Thank you to everyone who brought in clothing! We are well stocked for general clothing and I’m so grateful to a few special people who purchased lots of cleansing wipes (baby wipes) and toiletries for those who are outside and are having a hard time finding showers. Thank you also for those who sent the towels and items that Michael requested after moving into his new room at the YMCA. God bless all of you!! Our friend Stanley (who just got into a studio apartment after being outside for 10 years) had one more request from Tim’s House last week and told me that he really wanted a ‘soup pot’ because he would like to make soup. I told him, ‘no problem’ but forgot to ask anyone about it. But, God!!!!! One of our volunteers came up to me before our bus arrived with a brand new soup pot (in the box) in his hands and asked, ‘Would you know anyone who might want this soup pot?” I told Stanley the story as I handed him his new pot and explained that I had not told this man his request; and Stanley smiled and said, “Another Miracle!” Love and blessings, Marian http://www.timothysministry.org |
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