Day 13 and 14-Homeward Bound

Today I am going to have a short blog but share two days.  Today is Saturday which means I will be driving towards home at some point so I will not expect to post tonight and if you want to hear some more insight on my experience and what it means to the church, come out to Kenton UMC on Sunday at either the 8 am or 10 am service.  I will also be sharing some things in more detail about the Rising Hope Mission Church during our Sunday School time from 9:15-9:45 am.

To continue my post from Thursday night, Hypothermia Shelter was not too exciting but I did have to make two runs to a shelter about 3 miles south.  At 1:00 am, "Angel", showed up and we had no room so Jessica and I drove her down to Kennedy Shelter and got her checked in.  At 3 am, "James" showed up and we had to do the same thing but this was a little uncomfortable.  I believe he was high on heroin and although he was calm, you never know what can happen.  This time Shauna rode with me and we did get him a space at Kennedy as well.  No other real exciting events happened throughout the night and when the group got back to Wesley UMC to sleep we crashed!  I remember laying down on the air mattress and then waking up in time to get ready for noon time worship.

The last worship service at Rising Hope was fantastic and energy packed but it was also a time to say our good bye's to so many people that we made relationships with while there.  We came to minister to people and we ended up getting ministered to by the people of Rising Hope, people who we thought did not have much if anything, had more joy and inspiration to give than I could have ever imagined.  My heart grew so much over this experience.

Last night was an absolute awesome time of surrender to God and each other as we worshipped together as a group here at Wesley UMC.  It was so heartfelt and we shared where we saw God in each other.  Too much to put in the blog but it was about 3 hours long of just us sitting in a circle at the foot at the Cross in the sanctuary.  So cool!

This morning we began to pack up at 6 am today, Saturday, and I am so looking forward to getting home to see my family.  I am really going to miss the every day greetings, fun, farts, laughter, and love that I have been sharing with my new friends over the past two weeks.  But these will be friends that will last a life time.

I will post on Sunday because today will be a pretty big travel day and I don't expect to be home until late!  Until then, I hope I see you all soon!

Esperanza!
Pastor Scot