LA Dream Center - Saturday

I really haven't had time to write this all down, and now it's been over a week, so I am hoping I can remember all the details.

Saturday morning we ended up loading a food truck, but we weren't guaranteed that we would be the team to unload it and hand it out.

You'd think that we would be disappointed about this, but the team had really grown to "do whatever it takes".

We then had a corporate prayer time with EVERYONE that was a team member at the LA Dream Center.

As I walked to the Gym, (which was quite a ways....) I had three prayer thoughts:

1.  That God would give us direction.  Both Kent and I.  Job/Career.  Do we keep this house?
2.  That God would break my heart and give me compassion for the people of Los Angeles.
3.  I was tired.  Being the only female leader was exhausting.  I was the last to bed and the first to get up.  I needed God to meet me and strengthen me.

So as the prayer time started I asked the teens to stand and walk over to an area of the gym and really participate in this--and they did.

As the first worship song started I lifted my hands in surrender and I heard the singer say, bow my knee.  So I did.  I want to always be obedient.

A few moments later, Kevin walked over and touched my head and I was a goner.  The Holy Spirit welled up in me, dumped himself upon me.  I was speaking in tongues--In my head I was able to think about my prayer requests...but that's about it.  So I thought about Kent.  My number 1 prayer request.

Then, I thought about the people of Los Angeles, and I was heart broken.  I began to weep--I could not stop the groaning.  I've never experienced anything like this.  God really broke my heart for the people of Los Angeles.

There was only about 1 hour allotted for the prayer time--It zipped past so fast.

We were then given the opportunity to sign up for the neighbourhood we were going into today and we were given the area Gilbert/Lindsey.  The projects.

I was expecting something that looked a little more like a project from New York, but I was wrong.  It was only 2 story housing units, with quite a bit of green space.  We unloaded our food truck and handed out the food.  They reserved 30 bags of the groceries for people who were shut ins.

We then delivered the food to people at their homes.  They were super grateful--and one woman asked to be removed from the list--she had recovered from surgery and could walk out to get her own groceries.  She wanted to make sure that those groceries went to someone else.  She was really concerned for her neighbours.

We played an epic soccer game--in the blistering heat.

We found a dead bird.  We seriously thought about bringing it back to the school--we're know as being the team that finds dead animals.  We left it there....it was stinky.

We went wend directly from there to Muscle/Venice Beach.  We hung out, swam at the beach and had some dinner.

It was a really great last day of ministry.  Tomorrow will be completely different.