two things
first:
dec. 9. mark your calendars. that saturday will be the first church service for the homeless community at palmer episcopal church. mark muller, a houstonian who has been going out to the park the past couple years to hang out with some of the homeless there, has felt a call to start up a church service geared toward the homeless community. he presented his idea to palmer, and they accepted his proposal not long ago. the Lord has really been orchestrating this; it's all falling into place.
i met mark a couple months ago through frank jones, a math prof at rice, who had heard about citp. mark has a great heart of compassion and obedience, and he is very commited to this new citpp (church in the park at palmer). the service will be at 8 am on saturdays and will consist of some worship, preaching, and prayer. there will be a small breakfast (like coffee and danishes) at the end. he's still looking for people to get involved in planning/playing instruments/helping out.
palmer is the ideal place for this. every homeless person in houston knows about the "waystation," which is what palmer calls its weekday morning breakfast for the homeless (it serves a couple hundred people every weekday). this is clearly not another breakfast on that scale, which will have to be made pretty clear up front, but that will be realized quickly.
perfect timing also. because:
second:
the park is kicking us out. it doesn't seem as if they should have the right to pick and choose who hangs out in the park, but they are pretty clear about not wanting us there. park rangers stopped by tonight and talked to sean and basically told him that no organizations can meet regularly in the park. they also said that the guy in charge of the park actually just doesn't want any homeless people at all near the park. (but it's a public park! for everyone, right?) anyway, we're meeting with that guy on thursday, hopefully, and we'll see what happens. the Lord will have to soften his heart if we are to continue having Bible study in the park, because it doesn't seem like this man will budge. it's definitely in the Lord's hands now, which is a good place to be. :)
we'll see where He takes it from here!
dec. 9. mark your calendars. that saturday will be the first church service for the homeless community at palmer episcopal church. mark muller, a houstonian who has been going out to the park the past couple years to hang out with some of the homeless there, has felt a call to start up a church service geared toward the homeless community. he presented his idea to palmer, and they accepted his proposal not long ago. the Lord has really been orchestrating this; it's all falling into place.
i met mark a couple months ago through frank jones, a math prof at rice, who had heard about citp. mark has a great heart of compassion and obedience, and he is very commited to this new citpp (church in the park at palmer). the service will be at 8 am on saturdays and will consist of some worship, preaching, and prayer. there will be a small breakfast (like coffee and danishes) at the end. he's still looking for people to get involved in planning/playing instruments/helping out.
palmer is the ideal place for this. every homeless person in houston knows about the "waystation," which is what palmer calls its weekday morning breakfast for the homeless (it serves a couple hundred people every weekday). this is clearly not another breakfast on that scale, which will have to be made pretty clear up front, but that will be realized quickly.
perfect timing also. because:
second:
the park is kicking us out. it doesn't seem as if they should have the right to pick and choose who hangs out in the park, but they are pretty clear about not wanting us there. park rangers stopped by tonight and talked to sean and basically told him that no organizations can meet regularly in the park. they also said that the guy in charge of the park actually just doesn't want any homeless people at all near the park. (but it's a public park! for everyone, right?) anyway, we're meeting with that guy on thursday, hopefully, and we'll see what happens. the Lord will have to soften his heart if we are to continue having Bible study in the park, because it doesn't seem like this man will budge. it's definitely in the Lord's hands now, which is a good place to be. :)
we'll see where He takes it from here!
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