Recently my wife Deb and I had the privilege of speaking about the Water Street Mission to a group of residents at Country Meadows Retirement Home. We were greeted by a very sweet lady who happened to show up to chapel early. We were blessed to hear her story and inspired by her faith and love for the Lord. As the evening progressed we were treated to a variety of the old hymns that just aren’t sung much in most churches anymore. (Deb was particularly pleased with this part of the program.) After I spoke for a few minutes about the Mission, the group was asked to pray for two new employees, and then several of the residents gathered around Deb and I.Along with Pastor Jim, this group of veteran prayer warriors prayed over Deb and I, our kids, the Mission staff and our clients. We were then presented with a gift from the group in the form of a song that they sang to us. Pastor Jim said that the residents had been rehearsing for some time. The whole point here is that we went there to talk about the mission and to hopefully inspire some of the residents, but God turned it around so that it became a huge unexpected blessing to us.
Scooter Haase - Executive Director, Water Street Mission
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