Sounds like a good plan
October 15, 2008
I got one of the cards at the Vineyard instructing me to bring my child’s art to a retirement community. I’ve recently got involved with something else that is outward focused that I want to write about instead of visiting the retirement home. I just don’t have time to do it all.
For several years I have been meeting with two friends of mine every week for accountability and to just talk about life. We’ve dedicated that intense 1.5 hours to discuss problems and how we can be more like Christ. For the past several months we have become bored. We’ve talked about everything under the sun at least 3 times and we’re just out of topics. So we decided to get out of our comfort zone and spend 3 weeks a month visiting with the homeless at City Gospel Mission. We’ve just started so we don’t know how it’s going to work. But we decided to be more outward focused and put into action what we’ve learned. We also want to teach other men to have the same type of relationship that we have learned to have.
Initially we plan to meet with 3 guys from the mission and just play pool. So far we’ve just sat down and had dinner with them a few times. We hope this will allow us time to hear their stories, get to know them and just get comfortable with them. Then we plan to take it to the next level. Maybe we’ll do a Bible study, have a prayer group or some type of discussion that is below the surface. The idea is to intentially pursue the men and be a positive example to them that will allow them to know Christ more and break free from poverty. I’ve recently learned that it takes a significant relationship with another person to break free from poverty. I still plan to do a small outreach to hand out the card though. Thanks.
