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A Thank you letter from Deanna from downtown Bellingham...
Tonight at the coffee shop a man asked, "Are you Deanna?"
I said, "Yes."
He said, "These are all for you. We want to bless the hungry people you care for."
Then in marched a CAVALRY of young people from a youth group in Lynden, each carrying bags of groceries. I don't know how many, the line of them stretched from the front door of the coffee shop all the way to the back. They put the bags in the hallway, and the bags filled an entire wall. I watched them weeping with joy.
Without another word, the youths, Mitch Senti and the youth group leader went out the back door into the dark to minister to people on the streets.
When they returned, they all circled around me, laid hands on me, and blessed me to minister to the homeless, the elderly, and disabled people here in the Downtown and York Neighborhoods.
Before they left, the youth group leader gave me his name and said, "This is just one of the youth groups I am involved with. We all want to support what you do. Tell us what you need."
On the street outside the coffee shop, there were circles of prayer and people received healing in their bodies.
There will be enough food to feed all the shut-ins and disabled people who cannot cook for themselves here at Lincoln Square. We put the food on a cart and will deliver it tomorrow, letting people take the items they choose off the cart -- a mobile "grocery store." It comes at the right time to feed people at the end of the month when their disability checks regularly run out and people are without food during that difficult last week of each month.
AND there is enough left over to feed the homeless who gather for breakfast on Saturday morning outside Gabrielle's pickup truck on the north end of Railroad Avenue!
AND there is even more food that the Lincoln Square Social Club will use for community meals and other gatherings. So MANY people will be blessed by the generosity of these young people and their leader. The youths themselves are being blessed and the give to the poor.
Last Saturday at the Jesus Gathering, the place was filled to standing room only as the poor enjoyed a home-cooked meal, praised God, prayed, and gathered around a long, long table. It was like the story in the Bible when the host invited people to his party, and they were all too busy with their own lives to come. So the man went out into the streets and gathered the poor, the crippled, the homeless, and the elderly. Jesus Himself was our host as we broke bread and wine together, remembering His death.
Both the people and the table was messy, and there was God in the midst of our broken bodies and minds. I loved it that Heaven came down into our messy lives.
That Sunday I said the revival we have been praying for had begun! It continued tonight, and we pray that it will grow and spread until the whole world sits down to the Wedding Feast of the Lamb.
All glory, honor, and praise to God who has redeemed His people through His only Son, Jesus Christ.
All thanks to God who has remembered the poorest people in Bellingham. He has filled the hungry with good things. GLORY! Allelujah! Allelujah!
I said, "Yes."
He said, "These are all for you. We want to bless the hungry people you care for."
Then in marched a CAVALRY of young people from a youth group in Lynden, each carrying bags of groceries. I don't know how many, the line of them stretched from the front door of the coffee shop all the way to the back. They put the bags in the hallway, and the bags filled an entire wall. I watched them weeping with joy.
Without another word, the youths, Mitch Senti and the youth group leader went out the back door into the dark to minister to people on the streets.
When they returned, they all circled around me, laid hands on me, and blessed me to minister to the homeless, the elderly, and disabled people here in the Downtown and York Neighborhoods.
Before they left, the youth group leader gave me his name and said, "This is just one of the youth groups I am involved with. We all want to support what you do. Tell us what you need."
On the street outside the coffee shop, there were circles of prayer and people received healing in their bodies.
There will be enough food to feed all the shut-ins and disabled people who cannot cook for themselves here at Lincoln Square. We put the food on a cart and will deliver it tomorrow, letting people take the items they choose off the cart -- a mobile "grocery store." It comes at the right time to feed people at the end of the month when their disability checks regularly run out and people are without food during that difficult last week of each month.
AND there is enough left over to feed the homeless who gather for breakfast on Saturday morning outside Gabrielle's pickup truck on the north end of Railroad Avenue!
AND there is even more food that the Lincoln Square Social Club will use for community meals and other gatherings. So MANY people will be blessed by the generosity of these young people and their leader. The youths themselves are being blessed and the give to the poor.
Last Saturday at the Jesus Gathering, the place was filled to standing room only as the poor enjoyed a home-cooked meal, praised God, prayed, and gathered around a long, long table. It was like the story in the Bible when the host invited people to his party, and they were all too busy with their own lives to come. So the man went out into the streets and gathered the poor, the crippled, the homeless, and the elderly. Jesus Himself was our host as we broke bread and wine together, remembering His death.
Both the people and the table was messy, and there was God in the midst of our broken bodies and minds. I loved it that Heaven came down into our messy lives.
That Sunday I said the revival we have been praying for had begun! It continued tonight, and we pray that it will grow and spread until the whole world sits down to the Wedding Feast of the Lamb.
All glory, honor, and praise to God who has redeemed His people through His only Son, Jesus Christ.
All thanks to God who has remembered the poorest people in Bellingham. He has filled the hungry with good things. GLORY! Allelujah! Allelujah!
