Movin' on down

Yesterday we did our first official ICU (Inner City Unit) outreach from our new building in North Baton Rouge. After praying over our new facility we hit the streets armed with nothing but enthusiasm and postcard-sized flyers. You know the coolest thing about God? He'll take whatever you have to offer and bless it abundantly.

We got to talk to neighbors, prostitutes and business owners. We talked to people who were very high and people who were very low. We knocked on the door of a rundown house and were greeted by a woman whose entire family had been in a car wreck the night before. When we offered prayer she invited the team in, laid hands on the bruised face of her young son, and cried out to God with us. A local motel clerk told us, "Thank God you're here. We all need help."

One of our team leaders was told, "This is a dangerous place. Y'all need to get up outta here before something happens." The leader simply smiled at the woman and responded, "That's why we're here."

I thank God everyday that I belong to a church whose mission it is to be a healing place to a hurting world. We have been called to go to the streets and to the alleys, to search behind the hedges to find the crippled, the lame and the blind, and to bring them all to God's table.

What an adventure! All glory to God.