BRDC Winbourne...cleaning it up!

Saturday was amazing! We had over 250 volunteers show up to cut, scrub, scour and sort. We moved furniture, landscaped, pressure-washed and generally changed the face of Winbourne. Some of our new friends from the Winbourne Baptist congregation were there and they couldn't believe it. Their entire congregation consists of about 40 people (5 men and 35 widows) and has an average age of seventy. When our volunteers showed up with all of our passion and enthusiasm, even the pastor didn't know what to say. He was grinning ear to ear at the end of the day.

We met briefly before the work started just to thank God and to bring Him praise. It is all His doing that we even got the building, so we never want to forget how or why we're there. At the end of our meeting everyone was dispersed to their assignments. It looked like someone had just hit an ant hill with a lawn mower; a sea of red flowing out in every direction. It was awesome!

Aside from cleaning, we also got to meet some of the people in our neighborhood: a woman who wanted to pay her tithe to us because she watches Pastor Dino every week to television; someone who desperately needed clothes to wear from our new boutique; a woman who has prostituted herself for the past twenty years and wanted prayer. These are our neighbors. What a privilege!

I love that God has entrusted these precious souls to us. What an honor to be able to serve them, to pray for them and to direct them to Him. Father, let us do it well, in Jesus' name.