Miracles still happen

We had a team here from Knoxville, Faith Promise Church, and we did the standard outreach where they go door to door for the week and invite people to testing day and a celebration with Praise and Worship and food. This time we had to have the celebration in a different location and had to bus the people there. We were told that a lot of people wouldn’t come because of the distance, which was less than a mile, but those that told us that were wrong. We packed the church and had an awesome time. When it came time to pray for people, the team made themselves available. I was standing at the back observing. This young man came up beside me and asked me to pray for him. I asked him, “How I can pray for you and he proceeded to tell me that he was a homosexual living with another young guy and he found out 2 months ago that he was HIV positive, his mom had passed away and he didn’t have any way to get any help because he doesn’t have any identification. So how do you pray for all of that? I prayed for him and he moved on but I told one of our support group facilitators so she could follow up with him. This is one of many young people living this same lifestyle and on top of everything else they are hooked on “tik” Chrystal Meth. It is no different in America, but God has called us here to help these folks. Just 2 days ago, I took a class that Living Hope is asking all of its employees and volunteers to attend. Mike is going on Tuesday. It is a substance abuse training course to understand how we need to help with addictive behaviors before “we” (lots of people who are here because God called them here) can fix the HIV problem. We also have to address the “poverty of the mind” issues before we can fix the HIV problem and we are doing that through Living Way. There is a lot of work to be done here! Here is where the miracle part comes in. Because we were told that we wouldn’t have that many people, we only fixed food for 250 people. As the box dinners began to dwindle, Mike, Danielle and I looked up and there was still a very long line of people to get food and we began praying Lord please let there be enough food for everyone. We just repeatedly looked at each other saying, “keep praying, keep praying!” So as the line started to dwindle down, yes you guessed it, the very last box went to the very last person in line. In the Bible (Mark 6:30-44) Jesus talks about feeding the 5000 people on 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish, I believe in this day and age Miracles still happen!!