Busy week this week...and we LOVE it! Tuesday night we had our weekly Broken Pieces outreach on Whitehall Street in the ATL. We had about fifty volunteers from several churches who came to help us as we fed and ministered to about seventy of our homeless friends. Because of support from faithful parnters like YOU, we were able to bless many of them with tube socks, skull-caps and new underwear. Some of our volunteers also brought a few coats and hoodies. It was cold outside, but we had four large trays of hot lasagna for them, provided by a team of our volunteers from Oak Hill Baptist in Griffin, Ga. We preached, several responded to the message, and one lady we have been ministering to for years testified that Jesus Christ has completely changed her life! She told me, "Pastor Joel,I've been listening to you out here all this time, and I finally got it!" She used to practically beg us for money every week to support her habit. We would sometimes give her $2-$3, but we would always pray for her deliverance and healing. She had suffered with severe pain throughout her body for years. Tuesday night, she testified that she was pain free, delivered, and didn't need anything! To God be the glory!!!
Toinght (Thursday, Nov. 15th), we have our monthly Broken Pieces outreach at the "Making A Way" transitional housing facility in Atlanta's West End. A team of volunteers from Abundant Life Assembly of God in Jackson, Ga. will be with us, and will supply the food, lead us all in worship and share testimonies. We expect a good crowd. Afterwards, we will take the leftover food to the regular location on Whitehall Street, and feed and minister to our homeless friends there. We expect to be out till around midnight tonight.
Tomorrow afternoon, we have an outreach in Athens, Georgia. It is being organized by one of our volunteers who lives there. We plan to equip the saints there for front-lines, open-air and one-on-one minstry as well as power evangelism and healing the sick in the name of Jesus Christ. We will be taking the big cross out on the street with us, as it always helps us in drawing a crowd (the cross is 10 ft. tall and 5 ft. across at the cross-beam ).
As I write this post, our ministry van is still in the repair shop. Please agree with us in prayer for a newer van so that we can continue to reach out here in the inner-city. We are also beliveing God for a ministry trailer to help us transport food, blankets, clothes, tables, chairs and other items we use regularly for outreach.
Please agree with us in prayer that lost souls will be convicted of sin and born from above, that the backslidden will experience godly sorrow and return to their first-love, that the sick and afflicted will receive healing and deliverance, and the saints will be filled with the Spirit of God and equipped for service, in Jesus name, amen!
We love and appreciate you all!
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