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Thursday, October 26, 2006

long time no type

Ha ha. It has been a week since my last entry...
"let me explain... no there is too much... let me sum up" (yes... a "the princess bride" quote)
It has indeed been a busy week. Last Thursday we were in the park having our picnic with the folks. We made LOTS of chili and added cheese and fritos. It was a great lunch and Frog, Michelle, and others jumped in to help. It was a good day.

In the midst of all the Hope City stuff, Joyska's host home has been hoppin! (no pun intended... IHOP... hoppin... whatever). A woman named Linda from Minnesota spent the last couple weekends and a few extra days as a guest and a "roomie", while a couple (Joshua and Diana) have been here since the 18th and are here until the 30th. It is fun having people around and such amazing people at that.

Sunday, Mike Bickle gave an awesome word on Ephesians 1:16-19 about knowing the hope of our calling, knowing that He loves us and are HIS inheritance, as well as knowing the power we possess as a result of these things. It was excellent and confirmed for me that what we are doing at Hope City is calling out all of these things in us, as well as those we have come to serve.

Monday was back to the city, this time taking Linda with me (You stay with me, you join me! Well... at least you are invited) It was our last time in the Bellerive as we are officially out on our own. It was another Chili and hot dog night as the weather is getting colder and hot things are better to serve! We had a lot of people and many of them stayed for the prayer time at the end. Even Ron stayed! Woo Hoo!

Tuesday was our second week at our new place to pray. Pastor Ray seems to like having us there and we sense some really good things happening. It's such a great mix of people. Homeless, church folk, IHOPers... and ages ranging from one young daughter right up to those in their 60's. It's true community building.

I read once that community means that you can go to sleep at night knowing that everyone in your circle is warm and well fed. We aren't there yet, but that is why we say "community building!" And by the way, please keep praying that God would grant us with a Building to have that community!

Today, again we headed downtown. It was raining so we headed out armed with lunch bags to hand out to those who normally come. We ran around the city looking for people, praying, and hearing Marsha's answers to character flaws! We asked the Lord to release dreams and visions on the people and He is doing it! Marsha, Frog, AND Michelle all had profound dreams. One was even a man handing a blank check (cheque) to Marsha for Hope City that she could fill in with anything she wanted! We want it all PAPA... for YOUR glory!

Anyway, the adventure continues. Please pray for health for all of these ones... The power of God on our hands to heal would be good too! :)

be blessed!

(oh, and by the way... I received a digital camera in the mail yesterday! THANK YOU CYNTHIA!!! So soon MY pictures will grace this blog! WOO HOO!)
Joyska at 6:41 PM

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