2010
February 16

Outreach Story #1

David Andersen
ooutreachhand

One of the attendees who went to Hope Faith last Saturday shared the following story with me, and I want to share it with you.

 

Here it is:

 

"I wanted to share what I thought was a pretty neat God story from this past Saturday at Hope Faith. My wife and I went down with our 2 daughters. We were assigned to unbagging clothes donations and re-sorting them to be prepared to be washed. After a couple of hours my girls came across several bags of clothes we had donated about 2 months ago. That in itself was pretty cool because they got to see exactly what was happening with our donations.

 

But a really cool thing was that at the same time they were unbagging there were folks in the store coming to get clothes. [David: Hope Faith's clothing shop is open on Saturdays, and volunteers are paired with a Hope Faith client to help them shop and select clothes].  One of the ladies was looking for a backpack-type bag that she could keep her things in. My daughter had donated something similar to that and it had her name on it. Well, they ended up bringing this woman back to where my daughter was and giving her the donated bag which just happened to have my daughter's name on it. The woman was overjoyed because she said that the bag must have been for her because she had the same name as my daughter!

 

A coincidence?

 

I don't think so.:)"

 

God is at work before we show up.  He is at work while we are there (wherever that may be).  He is work when we leave.

 

David

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Larry

February 22, 2010 10:51 AM

It is fun when God surprises and blesses us by including us in blessing someone else. This is a story that will be a life time memory for all involved.