On this Valentines Day, I thought I would share a story about what Love does...
Saturday night, Community of Joy openned it's homeless men's shelter for two weeks. We are in a rotation of churches in salisbury that open our facilities to welcome men who otherwise would be out on the streets. Early in the morning hours on Sunday, the police brought us a guy who had an unfortunate turn of circumstances and found himself homeless for the first time ever in his life and now only had the clothes on his back.
He has a job and wants to do everything he can to keep it. But he needed work clothes. In the second worship gathering at Community of Joy, our Shelter Key Volunteer announced the need and by the end of the day, she had the pants and shirt he needed. We stock new undies and socks at the shelter, so we gave those to him. As well as an offer to go buy him a pair of work boots that afternoon and the icing on the cake for me, was one man took the jacket off his back and gave it to him!
What compelled this kind of selfless action? It was Love... The love of Our Father God given to us to be shared with others!
Love wins and is a powerful thing!
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