We got all packed up yesterday morning and headed to our last breakfast at the Children's Building. After breakfast we met about the excitement and concerns about going to church that morning. Some of them hadn't been around any of the homeless community yet and were a little nervous about how it was all going to go. We had them pair up in groups of people that went to the homeless shelter the night before with someone who was on the prayer drive instead. With partners ready we were out the door!
Church was COLD! We were all wearing every piece of clothing that we had brought. We had arrived around 10:15 in order to hang out with some of the church goers and to help set up their chairs. Service started around 11 AM. They had a choir from Baylor there also who sang and danced. We danced to the music half because of the fun music and half because we couldn't feel our feet and needed to move around. Their service is full of a lot of music and a short sermon by the founder of Mission Waco, Jimmy. After his sermon we took the Lord's supper. It was amazing to see the joy and excitement on the face of these homeless people when they talked and sang about how great our God is! The kids even asked, "Why are they so happy when they have so little?" It is something that we don't understand. Even during the service one of the homeless men named Patrick took everything he had out of one of this two bags and went into the crowd to give one of his bags away! It is amazing to see someone with nothing still trying to give his stuff away. There were about 200 + people there. We had the homeless community, Baylor students, and other people that call Church Under the Bridge home. Everyone around us was so different from what we are used to. It really was the true meaning of what Church is! Church is not a building, but rather made up of people. And that was their church. In 30 degree weather, under a bridge in Waco, 200 people were showing us what church is! Love it! Here are a few pictures.
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Post more pictures, PLLLEEEAAASSSEEEE, with sugar on it. :-)
Thanks for all you did, Katelyn so enjoyed it and has done nothing but talk about it since she got home. Love it.
We will be posting more pictures by the end of the day! On the side of the blog their will be a link to our Flickr account which will have ALL of our pictures from the trip on there!
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