Okay so for my second outreach I wanted to do something different, but I couldn't really find a time to go work at MAM or Salvation Army or work at the HFBC Christmas Store because of my crazy hectic school plan with homework and everything on the weekends. So I was trying to think of how I could do an outreach and I realized that I could go help the homeless people. I pass by like three homeless people a day in Houston, and my heart just breaks for them. A few years ago if you talked to me about homeless people, the LAST thing you would get from me would be a broken heart. I had a hard heart and thought that homeless people could get jobs and lives if they wanted to, but they are just addicted people and are getting the easy way out. It hurts me to think I used to be like this, but at the same time I praise God for the work He has done in my life. The homeless are hurting. They are in tough positions of their life and just need someone to care. I'll tell a quick story about my brother a month ago. He was going to Burger King and saw a homeless man and just kinda felt bad for him, but went on to get his food. So he went inside to get his food and he couldn't stop thinking about this man. So Christopher decided that God put it on his heart to help this man. So he bought a bag full of food and brought it to the man and the guy was sooo thankful. He ended up talking to Christopher and told him about why he was homeless and stuff. This man had been in Oklahoma with his brother to get a job and something happened so the brother kicked him out, the guy had a family back at home in a city an hour and a half away from Lubbock. He had been traveling for three years to get back to his family and he was still slowly traveling back home. So after hearing this story my brother left, got a full tank of gas, went back and picked up the man, and drove him to the town he was trying to get too. The man told him that he wasn't going to be able to pay him or give anything to him because he truly had nothing. Christopher just told him that he didn't want anything and the guy was soo shocked that he was just being nice. My brother really got to know this guy on the hour and a half drive and then when he got to the house the man went to the door and when his sister saw him she just embraced him and cried because she got to see her brother had been gone. So anyways my brother was SOOO blessed through this and I decided to do something along the same lines soo I went and got some food and gave it to three homeless people and they were all soo appreciative and I just felt soo unbelievably blessed through this experience. I learned to be WAY more thankful and appreciative of everything I have and I just LOVE giving! It makes me feel SO good :) So I want to keep giving!(:
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