Pastor Ed met us at the Church this morning and gave us a talk on prayer walking. He likened our prayers to the water that puts a fire out. Because the “fire” in Dolton rages strongly, we need lots of prayer to put it out, rather than just a little. Feeling inspired, we hit up several streets near the church with door-hangers advertising the church’s evening VBS, an stopped and prayed with multiple people. One of the things we prayed for was divine appointments to pray with people we met. God answered our prayers and we had great conversations with several neighborhood residents. Our prayer walk took us right by Needles Park where our afternoon service project was located. We met up with Mr. Cotton and Mr. Knuckles with the Dolton Parks Department and we started work painting the large fence surrounding the basketball court. We worked steadily until our delicious lunch of hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken fingers, and fries from by a local chain. Delicious! We continued until mid afternoon when we took a break to clean up before the evening. Tonight we’re continuing to work with VBS. Tonight we shared the parable of the lost sheep and reminded the kids that Jesus is the good shepherd. After VBS we had our nightly meeting where we spent time telling our life stories of how God has worked in our lives. It is so cool to see the common threads in each of our stories, but also the unique ways that God has drawn each of us to ourselves. Hopefully God will give us opportunities to share our stories with people from the community! Pray for us that we may be active in sharing our faith so that we will have full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ (Philemon 1:6). Pray also that God would impart his love to us so that we can represent him in all that we do.