Whatcha gona do with that Peanut Butter

Monday was an incredible day here in the Windy City. It started out with both groups trying to control chaos at our morning ministry sights. Even with all of the craziness and kids running all over the place everyone was thankful that we had the opportunity to minister to these children and to just love on them. You can be in prayer for all of the kids at the morning YMCA and CCO because we will be working with them all week. Pray that they will be able to be focus, listen, and be respectful.

At about 2:30 we all got our first shower after not being able to shower for right around 60+ hours. As dirty as we felt it was a good reminder to all of us how we take for granted some of the luxuries that we have in life and the ability to shower whenever we want to is definitely one of those luxuries.

Monday night was an incredible night. We were split up into three different groups and sent off with map into different areas in the city. Our objective - to get an understanding of what it might feel like to be w homeless teen on the streets of Chicago. Each group of six (5 students and 1 adult) had 12 dollars for dinner, what an experience it was for our students to have to really think about how to spend money so everyone had a full stomach and didn't go to bed hungry and fast food restaurants were out of the picture because fast food places don't let homeless people in.

Each group came back after 4+ hours of incredible stories of people they meet, homeless people they prayed with, one group was even feed by two veterans who were either homeless or living in poverty but they were so joyful in being able to serve their rice and beans and tortillas to one of our groups. They wanted nothing to do with the 12 dollars we had and were just thankful to be able to serve us from their "table".

I could go on about the stories from Monday night but you will just have to wait until we get home but make sure you ask us about them because I know we will never forget them men and women that we meet.


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