Ministry is messy. People are messy. Relationships are messy.
There’s no rest, no schedule, no beginning, no end.
It does not always feel good.
And this is the Gospel.
Thank you, God, for messy people.
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“NightWatch is a ministry to reach the hurting where they are, to share food, drink and comfort for the immediate need, but moreover to show the love of Christ that lasts an eternity.”
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So tonight at NightWatch I met a guy who’s been in the U.S. for about a dozen years, and he told me how he traveled through six countries and swam through rivers and risked his life to get to America. Why? “Everybody knows that America is free.” He’s from a country that’s very poor and has no jobs. “I like work,” he said over and over, smiling. He’s worked since the day he got here. He loves working. He loves having the opportunity to work. He loves helping people. Someday he wants to go to Africa and help people there, too. He’s heard that people are really poor there. “They don’t have water.”
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