Ever since I got home from New York I’ve been praying for guidance on what God wants me to do here, and everything He has thrown in my face, I have ignored using every excuse in the book. Recently, I’ve been spending more time with God, and He has been teaching me how to be more obedient and live a surrendered life. Teaching me what it really means to love like he has called for us to love. Living like Jesus.
This past week I hosted two screenings of the documentary “Adopt-A-Jesus” hoping to share it with many students on campus…to get them thinking…to give them an opportunity to question if we are all really living the way God wants for us to live. When only a handful of people came to watch the film, and many people at the football game, I saw what is really important to us“Christians” but I know that God sent the people he wanted to be there and I thank him for that. Through the film, hearing Brandt’s stories (and many conversations with him), and lots of time with God…He revealed so much more to me.
God has layed something on my heart and I’m ready to act on it. (I’m not waiting until I graduate. I’m not making anymore excuses.) I want to spend time building relationships with homeless and poor folks in New Orleans. What better way of doing this then having picnics with them in Jackson Square?...Meals at J Square.
I’m doing this by selling a bunch of my “junk” to pay for the food and I’m hoping you will join me. I’m going to have a yard sale within the next few weeks and I ask that you go through your stuff and help out. If not, you can help with the yard sale. And if you feel lead to, come hangout with the people with me. Pray about it. Seek God about it. I want to make a trip down there the week of Christmas and that is only the beginning.
Luke 12:33-34 “Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
Facts About The Homeless
In New Orleans Approximately:
• 33% are families; most being women with children
• 30% have jobs: part time; seasonal; minimum wage
• 23% have a chronic mental illness
• 50% have substance abuse problems
• 85% are natives of Louisiana, 15% are non-natives
• Less than 10% of the homeless population is homeless by choice or "hard core" homeless.
