Hello friends!
It’s been awhile since I’ve written anything so I’ll share a little bit about the last few weeks with Relevant!
We had a prayer walk last weekend and we had a lot of new faces come and pray with us! It was awesome, we love when we have new people come out – especially for the first time. It gives us a renewed energy and fuel for the city of buffalo. I know I have hard days when we go out and pray and I just find myself getting distracted and not really entering into prayer and dialogue with the Lord and it tends to take me a little longer to enter in. Usually by the end of our walks I’m fired up and ready to go! So it was nice to see new faces and fresh hearts that have a desire to pray for the city. All we can do is continue in our obedience to what God has called us to do, and remember in the little things He is delighted with us.
For the past month or so Claire and some of the gang from the ministry have been heading downtown to Thursdays in the Square and I’ve been hearing nothing but good things about what God has been doing and what they’ve been doing with these kids downtown. So I went this past week for the first time and I have to admit I was a bit overwhelmed by it at first. There were SO MANY kids downtown walking around, just wasting time and hanging out and they LOVE chalk! I am fully supporting this facet of our ministry and I believe this is what the church needs to do. To get out of their comfort zones and talk to people, love people, and accept people as they are. Jesus did that, He didn’t try to force Himself onto anyone, or make them believe, He just accepted them, loved them, and talked to them. We need to be Jesus to these kids. They need to see Christians outside of the church, living life, being human. I personally didn’t have any conversation with anyone, I was just overwhelmed by it all I prayed and wrote with chalk. But I loved watching what happened.
Camp Vick! A few of us left saturday afternoon for Freedom NY to play at VICKfest. It was an all day music festival of sorts. We got there around 5:30 after our little mishap with the poor band van. It is currently sitting in the Hamburg Auto Repair Shop. The serpentine belt is shot, along with the power steering. It made an aweful noise, as Amanda said – it sounded like the screaming eels on the princess bride (a classic) and all we smelled was burning. So that’s not good. But the set went really well, Chris played a lot of great songs, some of my favorites.
So this is a pretty low-key week – I believe we will be out at Queen City Farm Saturday to help plant trees and do other outdoor type activities. Next week We have Faith night at the Bisons game and we can’t forget the WDCX baseball fundraiser, I’m kinda excited to see some of my men play baseball, followed by a benefit concert for City Mission.
I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday weekend, feel free to leave comments about what you did over the weekend, or anything really! We love to hear from our readers. And hope to see you all out at our events!
Pray for us!
