Posted on 06/23/2022 5:48:56 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
Presently, I'm at a ladies homeless shelter that's run by Catholic nuns.
Being low-income, so often I see where American Bible-believing churches are nowhere to be found although the Lord is at work. As He says, where He is, there will His servants be also.
And while I believe I'm not "worthy" to be homeless, in any case, helping the homeless is supposed to be about mercy and charity regardless of their "merit" (with qualifications due to bad actions by some individuals).
“Merit” is a worthless argument for any Christian charity. We are all undeserving of the mercy of God, for we’ve all sinned and fallen short of His glory.
However, personal conduct issues can justify a removal from the property, and being barred from the property. Alcohol or drug possession, being intoxicated on the premises, engaging in assault of other disruptive behavior ... these are all grounds for removal and banning from the property.
Every person has their challenges, their victories and setbacks.
Don’t think your efforts to spread God’s Word have gone unnoticed. You have brought immense peace and understanding to many. Your reward will be great.
We pray that you will have a home surrounded by friends and loved ones.
In the interim, you may be called to minister to the homeless and destitute.
Think to use your internet talent to setup gofundme pages for those in need. Whatever God calls you to do, please let us know how it goes.
God bless you!
Yes. None of us is “worthy” of a home. Or anything but God’s judgment.
If I have a tent to sleep in, it is the grace of God. “A man can receive nothing except it is given him from above.” “All we have comes from Him....”
Most content I’ve been is when I had nothing but the clothes in my car and my car - working & living with the poor. Go to Nicaragua or Haiti - the poorest of the USA are rich compared to them. I loved helping the poor in their cardboard & tin shacks in the city dump of Managua Nicaragua.
Thinking we deserve anything is not understanding our condition, our nature, or God’s nature. He is full of mercy and grace.
Although I am Catholic and all for saying great things about the Catholic Church, I do remember being in a hurricane and those who helped were Salvation Army, Baptists, and Methodists, the last of whom were there for many months helping the elderly and poor with repairs to their homes.
So I think that just as different people have different little callings in our charitable work, so too do different groups. If we all did the exact same thing, a lot of work wouldnot be done at all!
Good luck with finding a place to live—i will pray for you.
My mistake. We prefer givesendgo.com to gofundme.
God bless.
not to sound cynical but I may have discovered a way to eliminate homelessness: everyone carry around a sack lunch to give to homeless folks you encounter.
it isn’t 100% effective but I seem to see more homeless people when I’m sandwich-less.
What are you saying?
Are you saying you are a low income woman who finds it necessary to stay in a shelter, and you are unhappy because in your experience not enough Bibe believing evangelicals run women’s shelters?
I used to get cans of beans with pop tops - now Biden has got them skyrocketing
Up almost 60 percent this year.
$1.48 soup in February? (Walmart)
It was $2.24 or so at Walmart tonight
Thanks, Democrats and NeverTrumpers.
Thanks a lot.
Great job at the gas ⛽ pump too.
Really awesome.
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I can’t do much, but if I can figure out paypal tomorrow, I’ll do something.
Something that’s been on my mind lately are all these large Christian concerts and festivals, mens and women’s retreats; that people spend hundreds and thousands on attending.
I can almost guarantee no souls are won during these events. The people attending are believers, or at least associated.
How much more good, and souls won for our Lord, would come from actually helping people instead of literally throwing away money on that garbage!?
Part of why I feel like an outcast in almost every Christian community.
FReemail me your paypal or venmo.
Prayers for you!
There are many lost souls at shelters. You use that gift of evangelism thatthe Lord gave you.
We’re sojourners here - as this is not our home.
You’re right I think.
I have never been a fan of those things.
It really is getting harder to find descent Christians anywhere anymore.
To be in official DC surely must be one of the most profound unreality bubbles of them all.
I do not know if you ever saw it, or having seen it remember it; but, after 9/11 someone did a man on the street interviews with people about that day in the Capitol and they just happened to pick a fellow from K Street.
The man spoke with conviction about how strange it was in the aftermath of the attack, with everyone milling about in the streets because of the offices closing.
But it was the way he described those offices, the lobbying and law firms, that really stuck out.
He said that they were the great industries of any major city, and he repeated it twice ... that lobbying and law firms were the great industries of major cities.
That’s what he thinks great cities do! What a benighted worldview his bubble has.
Law and lobbying firms as a rule of thumb do not produce anything, they make no goods and the services that they provide, insomuch as they seem needful mainly to try to cope with other lawyers and other lobbyiest, cannot even claim to be revenue neutral but they are nothing but an expense, a drain on the productive, and like the legendary world-serpent with its tail in its mouth they feed on the need for each other because they have so twisted and distorted the law and government that they create full employment for their unproductive and counterproductive professions.
And yet that is DC.
What a rotten sack of rabid weasels that town is!
Seriously. I wonder how Christianity survived all this time without all these festivals and retreats. They are almost a requirement to be in the “in crowd” these days.
Well I’ve never been in that “in crowd”.
The dressed up folks with more social problems than i can throw a cat at.
They’re lost if you ask me.
The Lord always has His remnant in every age. That’s how it has lasted so long. But if you ask me, we’re wrapping up this age soon and the end is near.
Is the ladies' homeless shelter equipped with WiFi? What is the password to log onto the Internet there? Are you using a SmartPhone or a portable computer to post here at Free Republic?
And while I believe I'm not "worthy" to be homeless [...]
I don't understand that statement; what does one have to do to be "worthy" of being homeless? What must one do to be "deserving" of being destitute?
Questions abound!
Regards,
I think you misunderstand Faith Presses On; she wrote:
And while I believe I'm not "worthy" to be homeless [...]
So she wrote that she is not worthy of being homeless - not "not worthy of a home."
Regards,
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