Let the Little Children Come to Me

Last Thursday we had Randy over again to talk about how things were going. It's always nice to have a different age demographic in the house; it seems to expose the ridiculous nature of our joy, because you see, its only when we become self-aware of our meal time behavior that we realize just how happy we have become in this community. So the community aspect of our ministry is still going strong. Our attempt at outreach had not been so successful over the past week.

On Sunday we tried to invite people over for a neighborhood cookout. Lots of people said they would come - Bubba Green said he would bring a bunch of people....no one came. But we had a large number of hot dogs to live off of for the week. Going into Thursday night, I thought a lot about what we could do differently. One idea Aaron and I had throughout is making food and simply taking it to people's doors. We're still in the stage of just needing to meet people so, you know, anything to do that. Anyways, we're sitting there telling Randy about all of this when a knock sounds on our back door. Only the people we know come to the back door. Usually first time visitors use the front door.

I got up and rushed around the corner and opened the door. Two young children were just standing there looking up at me. An 11 year old boy and a 9 year old girl. They just stared at me. I said "whats up." (the two children shrug) "...want some dinner?" (they shrug) "want to come in?" (emphatically they nod.)

Moo Moo and Allenia

We didn't do a thing to bring them in. They just came.

It's like they knew the kingdom had manifested on their block and so they came. They came to Jesus.

Since that day another 8 kids have come over, three of them completely unconnected to Moo Moo and Allenia. Like Bobby - the same thing happened the first time he came over, and he's only like 6 years old.

I have no idea how we expect to handle the ministry God is sending us without help. We already have more to do than we have time for and its only been a few months. But I know He's going to provide. These kids just showed up after all. His servants will as well.