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| Lakewood Towne Center Entrance |
Hello to all the people who are keeping up with us and welcome to another update from Calvary South Sound brought to you by Landon! So I moved up here three weeks ago and its just been awesome! I'm all settled and love living with the Barbers and playing with the kids. I love how green it is and how many bodies of water are so close. And also, as the title suggests, I have yet to be convinced it rains here. Three weeks and not a single storm, clear and bright, shiny skies. Its been pretty awesome.
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| This is where we host our Bible study. |
Some really cool stuff has happened in the last couple weeks so I want to share a couple stories. First off was our study last Thursday. As you know, last week one guy showed up, and this week, no one showed up. So after the kids went home Cam and I did a short study on the beatitudes (Matt. 5) and decided to go out into the town center to see who we could find and see if the Lord wold bless our efforts. We spotted a couple people but they were completely uninterested in talking to us and actively avoided us. Then we found a guy sitting outside of Safeway charging his phone. We asked if we could talk to him about Jesus and he told us that he knew Him as his personal Lord and Savior already, but gave us permission to talk to him. His name was David and He began to show us pictures of his 6 year old son back in the Philippines. We offered him some food and after some deliberation, he said he wanted a hot dog from the nearby Seven Eleven. We agreed and as we walked he began to spill his life story. In February he had started doing meth and since then had lost his apartment, his job, his truck, he had missed a court date, and was obviously kinda new to this whole homeless thing. He had even tried to commit suicide in Seattle by jumping off a bridge, but he heard his son call his name and as soon as he got down, his son called him from the Philippines. He told us that he felt like God was punishing him somehow. Cam was talking and I was praying and literally as we were walking down the street some guys pulled up in a car and yelled at David offering him "crank" aka, meth. Cam just kept on encouraging him and we were able to walk away. By the time we got back to Safeway so he could continue charging his phone, he had been completely encouraged by us. He said that he was sitting there and had just thought, "Man, i'm hungry" when Cam and I walked up and offered him some food. He said that he was going to call his wife, then flag down the nearest police officer and turn himself in, do his time (60-90 days), get out, get a job, and turn his life around. He said that he thought he just needed a bolt of lightning to get back on track and he thought that God used us to be that bolt. We've been looking for him and can't find him so we believe he really did what he said he was going to do. The Lord used us to bless David and we were blessed in return. This is front line church planting. God is moving here.
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...because all other right turns cost you something?
(This is my favorite sign in all of Lakewood) |
Okay, one more story for you guys. Cam and I have been talking about how we want to try and do free breakfast on Sundays before service when we launch. One problem we were facing was the cost. As you guys know, Cam is a cashier at a local Walgreens, so he gets to see a LOT of people during the day. But there was this particular lady who was buying a peculiarly large amount of milk and Cam asked her if she wanted each carton in a separate bag. She said yes because she is part of an organization that drives around in a delivery truck and gives food to homeless people. Cam thought that was pretty cool and told her that he was a church planter who had just moved here. She was astonished and asked if we did anything with homeless people. Cam said he would love to help her out sometime and mentioned the breakfast thing. She was ecstatic and asked for his business card so she could email him a bunch of information. She said that when we get started she wants to help us with breakfast, that she can help us get food, cost covered, and tell everyone about it who needs to know about it, and she is totally cool that we are a church and want to do this. Can you say Godsend?
Well, those are my stories for this blog update. Thanks for all your prayers and we're continually excited to see how God moves up here.
Here are some things you can keep in prayer:
1. Kenzie and her school
2. Britt's headaches and the two young ones
3. I'm on the job hunt and Cam is looking for one with more consistent hours.
- Calvary South Sound Church Plant Team
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