Bad Tomato

To the untrained eye this looks like bad tomatoes on the sidewalk of City Mission...

24 hours before this people were lined up to get food from the

City Mission Harvest Food Ministry...


To get much needed food.

We hope that the outcome is more than just food. We hope that the people that line up for the Harvest get spiritual food. And that one day they will know better than to toss the tomatoes, but to eat them.

End result: Eat Spiritual food to break the chains of generational poverty.

In the mean time: Keep loving & keep feeding the needs.

That is what Jesus would do.

I want to see the people and not the tomato.

I hope you do, too!

Violin Concert!

The beauty and talent of the children in these pictures speaks for itself!

The fabulous Miss Z that helped create this beauty!

Putting it to Good Use

We had a garage sale here at City Mission on Saturday. Although my mothers says technically it it was not a garage sale because we did not have a garage. But we argued that most of the items at the sale came from some one's garage.

ANYWAY...

Here are a few pictures of folks that put their items to immediate use. Above is Tony. We have known him since he was born. He purchased the shorts at the sale in the morning and then came back to the sale with them on later in the afternoon. He is swinging on the swing set at

City Mission.

These beautiful ladies were rolling down the street after the sale. They purchased their roller blades at the sale earlier in the day. I had to stop and speak to them. They are new to the area and just assumed that City Mission did a sale every Saturday. I said "Lord, no that is too hard of work, we are a school with tutoring and mentoring programs". She said "we need to know more." I said come on up and find out on Monday.

Precious in God's sight I'm sure.

Sorry I have missed a few days. I have two more in the hopper so keep a look out.

Nic

Family Camp

Most summers we take a trip up north with some of our family friends from the neighborhood. Because of funding this year we coudln't make it happen, but we made something else happen as these relationships are so important to us.

Thanks to the generosity of some of our biggest fans we had a familly BBQ night out in the suburbs. These friends opened up their home stacked with a pool, tennis court, basketball hoop, and excellent hanging out space to our city mission family for a night.

We ate really good food, played bingo, swam and dove, played basketball, hit the tennis ball, swang on the swings, broke the pinata (of course with a few tears) and just enjoyed each others company. We even made it on the news that evening. We had such a great time and are so grateful for so many people like these friends that make things happen at City Mission.

Enjoy a few pics of the fun!

Working Hard

Angels Sanders is working hard to break the chains of generational poverty.
Angel Sanders is a 3rd grader that is going to repeat 3rd grade. She is just a bit behind in her school work. But not for long if Beverly Bailey and City Mission have anything to say about it.
Beverly has spent hours with her this summer. In addition Angel has attended summer semester at City Mission Academy. She has also had homework and brought it all done.
Beverly says that Angel's light went on last week.

It just went on...like that!

We know that our God is a God of miracles. This is one of His miracles. Angel Sanders and Beverly Bailey "doing the work".