Rooftop Revelations: Pastor Brooks reflects on his 100 days on the roof and God’s timing

FOX News.com ^ | February 28, 2022 | Eli Steele

[Kaslin]

CHICAGO – From a rooftop in the South Side of Chicago, Pastor Corey Brooks led a 100-day vigil to build a community center to transform the South Side of Chicago into a thriving community. On the 100th day, he wished to share his views with his audience and to reflect on his experience and God's timing.

What follows has been lightly edited. We strongly encourage you to watch the accompanying video so you may hear the pastor in his own words.

For the past 100 days and 99 bitter cold nights, I've been camped out on top of these eight shipping containers on the South Side of Chicago at a location where our church hopes to build a new community center. My plan was to spend 100 nights upon the rooftop to raise funds for the center while also raising awareness of the plague of violence in Chicago.

100 days upon the roof in Chicago's winter, I figured would be more than enough to raise the funds to build a community center.

But my timing, as is often the case, was not God's timing.

While fundraising is going well and we have been blessed by the generosity of so many donors, we've not yet met our goal.

For the past few weeks, I have sensed that God was telling me to stay up on the roof until the fundraising for this project was complete. I know it was God's voice telling me to remain on the roof because it certainly wasn't my heart's desire. Temperatures have gotten down to minus 20 degrees with the wind chill factor, and I have been eagerly looking at my calendar, counting the days until I would come down from this rooftop.

[fwdude]

Call me a skeptic, but a “community center” isn’t going to do it.

[MercyFlush]

>>> Call me a skeptic, but a “community center” isn’t going to do it. <<<

What’s really called for here are drastic measures like a Take Back the Night march or maybe even implicit bias and equity training.

[throwthebumsout]

The man appears to speak to his faith, and his actions seem noble, but the skeptic in me says that the problems with Chicago’s South Side go beyond the lack of a community center. I pray that I am wrong.

[throwthebumsout]

What’s really called for here are drastic measures like a Take Back the Night march or maybe even implicit bias and equity training.

Or a celebrity holding a stern message.

Or wearing ribbons

[fwdude]

My question is how much (unaccounted) cash did he rake in?

[fwdude]

Community centers are a dime a dozen, and have been tried ad nauseam. They just become another meeting place to sell drugs.

[Honest Nigerian]

Invoking God’s name? Yeah. /s
Like Oral Roberts claiming God was going to kill Oral if the money did not come in for City of Hope.
Please knock it off with the “God told me to ….” stuff. There is one Jesus, and no substitute/s.