About 6 months ago I began to pray that God would help me love people as He loved them. Shortly after I began praying this prayer, I started to become extremely convicted of how I was spending my time and money. It was all for and about myself. I helped others, but only when the circumstances conveniently crossed my path. Everyday the burden pressed on my heart like heavy weights that I needed to serve others selflessly. So, I started looking for ways that I could help others. Not only others but the lost. Somehow, God led me to working with the homeless. The more I worked with them the more I began to love and care for them.

What’s so amazing about this internship, besides that it’s in Hawaii, is that Waianae Baptist Church actively searches for ways to serve others and spread God’s love, especially to the homeless. God placed me in exactly the right spot.

So, I’ve been here for only a short time and it’s already been so busy... but incredibly amazing. I knew from the beginning that God orchestrated every thing so beautifully before I left, but I had no clue how much until I got here. And I have a feeling that I will recognize so much more as time unfolds.

One of the coolest ministries at the church is their “Breakfast and Food Basket” ministry, which is typically called B&B. This is an enormous outreach to the homeless community where they feed them breakfast, make them food baskets, and preach God’s word to them.

This is how it runs... When they first come they print their name and how many adults and children they have in their family. Then, after they sign in, they eat breakfast. After breakfast, they go to the sanctuary to listen to a devotional. While they are listening to the devotional, people from the church make food baskets which consist of a myriad of food items. Then after the devotional they take their baskets home.

It’s by no chance that God gave me such a huge heart for the homeless and I ended up at a church that helps and loves the homeless so much. There’s something freeing about serving others, not out of selfish ambition but God’s pure love. My relationship has never been this close to God until I started serving and loving others. God is answering my prayer and everyday I’m so amazed at what He is doing in the lives of others.

Robert Murray M’Cheyne said:

I am concerned for the poor but more for you. I know not what Christ will say to you in the great day.... I fear there are many hearing me who may know well that they are not Christians because they do not love to give. To give largely and liberally, not grudgingly at all, requires a new heart; an old heart would rather part with its life-blood than its money. Oh my friends! Enjoy your money; make the most of it; give none away; enjoy quickly for I can tell you, you will be beggars throughout eternity.

Please pray for a lady that is desperately looking for a job and a place to stay. She lives at a place called the Civic Center, which is like a transition place for the homeless to stay for a couple of years and then they need to move out and find a place to stay. She’s usually such a bright joyful person but she’s having such a hard time right now because she has to be out by the end of the month. Mahalo.