Mississippi Team Day 2

Today the team came and experienced our local church. We all enjoyed worshiping together and then had a local minister to the Gay and Lesbian community speak during our Sunday school hour. This was to prepare us for our afternoon excursion. This was a very informative and well done time. We were all incredibly blessed by his testimony, information on how to reach out to this community and ways to pray. If you are interested in having him come and share at your church I would be happy to get you his information. Just message me. 

During our second hour at church a group taught our 1st and 2nd graders about God creating everything. They did a fantastic job! It was such a blessing to our pastors wife who has not been able to attend a full worship service in a year.

After a great BBQ chicken fundraiser (put on by our youth!!) we headed off to the SF Castro district. It was a new experience for all of us. During our time there we were able to meet a few people and pray over many different buildings. Our local minister shared with us that the average time it takes to work with a homosexual person before they are ready to talk about the sin aspect is 18 months of trust building. We pray we were a loving example of Christ to all we came in contact with.

A few people you can pray for that my group met are Jeff, Joe, and the woman with the striped socks.

We also drove around  to a few different places of specific spiritual strongholds in this area.

The Castro Theater

Magnet does HIV/AIDS testing and is a big supporter of the Gay and Lesbian community

Metropolitan Community Church: The second Homosexual accepting church in the country

After driving home we were debriefed with the local minister and enjoyed a good question an answer time. We are all challenged to love our homosexual friends with the love of Jesus; "compassion without compromise."

After all that hard work we ordered a few pizzas and enjoyed getting to know each other a little better. Again we were so blessed by the group's willingness to serve and be teachable on this hard topic.