Downtown San Diego: Feeding and Speaking to the Homeless

As mentioned in the UC Davis blog, I am so passionate on Philippians 2. I was blessed with the opportunity to speak at a homeless shelter in downtown San Diego and I chose to speak on this. I also shared a part of my testimony.

 

Afterwards, people came up to me, thanking me for sharing. It was a blessing to hear their stories and where God was leading them.

One lady, Ivette, totally shocked me with her story. In mine, I talked about forgivness. She said it took her a while but eventually forgave her sister-in-law who took her four year old kid and mummified and killed her.  Ivette tahnked me for the work I did in Romania to serve kids who aren’t loved because this world needs it. Ivette now wants to be a missionary to serve kids around the world—I told her to do it! To get plugged into a local church and they can help support you.

One dude was PDA’ing it up with his girlfriend literally the whole time we were there. When I was serving coffee—I got a chance to talk to him. In my message, I talked about how our generation needs to MAN UP—there are too many boys out there—and we need to respect women and take responisblilty. I could tell this vibed with him. He opened up to me and told me a relative of his wasn’t treating his brother right even though she proclaimed to be a Christian—I told him there’s a lot of people who talk but don’t back it up and all we can control is how we react and make sure we’re doing the right thing for that’s the only thing we can control. He told me of a situation where he found out one of his ‘homegirls’ was raped. He was doing meth with the guy who raped her and then beat him up to death. He was charged and went to jail. I commendemd him for that passion of wanting justice and the rage he had—I wouldv’e felt the same exact way—I absolutely hate seeing that sick stuff go on. But I told him how important it is to control those emotions and ultimately forgive, as hard as that is to do at times. Then we will truly feel free. And they stopped PDA’ing after a while—I could tell the conviction they had because they were def all up on each other in this homeless shelter, man.

Oh, and I need to mention that while we were serving food, a fight broke out between two men. We needed to break up the fight and sent them both outside. After speaking with a big dude who works at the shelter, he told me that the devil is so present there. When you bring the Word and love of God to people, the devil will do anything he can to distract and fight that off. We literally saw that with two dudes fighting.

Lil Isaiah! Man, what a blessing meeting this little dude. I hope he clings to that Bible for the rest of His life.