Tears of Sorrow and Pain to Tears of Rejoicing and Praise

Today has been a tough day for our household. As the new month is approaching, we are struggling even more and more. As a fellow human being looks at our life, we look pathetic. We look like losers. We look like we are off our rocker. At this moment, we have no money. We will be homeless at the end of the month. We don't have new clothes. We have one more meal to put on the table. We are in the process of trying to sell our possessions. The list goes on and on.

You may ask, "Why do you look so pathetic?" "Why are you in this mess?"

Well, I'm glad you asked. We are following what God has called us to do and that is to reach the homeless. Almost a year ago we started a non-profit homeless ministry called "Knowing Me Ministries". We have fallen in love with these people God called us to. We have befriended them, advocated for them, drive them to the hospitals, drive them to court, visit them in jails and prisons, encouraged them to keep going, bought them tents, clothing, Bibles, etc when needed, taken water out to their camps, work in the court system as a volunteer in order to make sure things are fair for the community and homeless, helped the homeless get their court things done, shared God's love with them, push their carts, teach them the scriptures, list goes on and on. We felt led by God to live totally by faith and work full time in this ministry. It has been extremely hard at times. You get frustrated. You go without food. And you ask God, "why are we struggling when you called us to this?". Our family just had a really tough morning where we all shed tears. Time is clicking away so quickly and we have no place to go and call home. We are willing to do it, but as humans, we struggle. We were reading in the Bible of the list of struggles Paul shared with the Corinthians. God never promised if we followed him that it wouldn't be hard. Paul was homeless and hungry. But, we keep going because we know He has called us to this. We just have to trust that He knows what is best and that He is going to provide what we need.
As I said earlier, we were having a tough morning and getting stressed about things. Well, my husband came and stopped by home for a few minutes and was in tears. I thought, "OH, No. What now?". I didn't think I could handle any more bad news. He said, "I just saw Steve (homeless man we have become friends with) and he came to me and said that he wants to follow Christ. He wants me to come out in the morning and start teaching him the scriptures and how to follow Christ.". We both had the same response of praise to God, but on a personal level it was, "OK God. We get the hint once again. We will continue what we are doing and trust in you.". So, our family is still nervous, but we will not stop following Him NO MATTER THE COST.

Please pray for us and the ministry. Pray as we teach the new Christians out there how to follow Christ. Pray for the village that we would love to build so we can give them shelter and the help they need. Pray for our housing. We have been looking into living in an RV that is self contained. We cannot do this without God providing it since we have no funds to purchase one. It would allow us freedom to reach more homeless, travel across the country sharing what we do and training others to do the same. It would allow our finances to be more freed up so more can go to helping others. We don't know. Maybe it is a house God wants for us. Either way, please pray for us and that God will get ALL THE GLORY. That is all we want.

website: www.KnowingMeMinistries.org
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