Our last full day in Detroit:( My name is Natalie, it my first year on this missions trip and i'm already anticipating next years trip to Detroit. Why you may ask? From the joy if have found from the people on this trip to the constant question, "Is God here?". On Tuesday, my team had the opportunity to prayer walk around the neighborhood. We stared with a prayer and I specifically remember Eric praying for interaction and conversations we would have with the people of Detroit. We soon realized we were not there to pray with or talk to people in the neighborhood, but instead to pray over the community. We knew this because the people were looking confused out their windows at us, and we would walk past a house and 15 seconds (I'm not joking literally 15 seconds) later we heard music starting to play and a younger man walks out and waves. Apparently this is just what the Holy Sprit had in store for us! From then on out, we prayed for local churches and things that we had encountered that spoke to our hearts.
That was Tuesday. This evening Lori made her infamous shepherds pie. She had made an extra shepherds pie, so the team came up with the idea of serving the extra food to the hungry in Cass Park. Eric, Amanda, Josie, Mattie, and I hopped in and drove to Cass Park. We made it and we served a couple in the main area of the park, it was pretty empty. So we hopped in Black Knight (aka the rental car) and drove around the Cass Park. There was a billiards building that in past years teams were not welcome in. But, sure enough Amanda said "Lets go!". We drove up and asked the two men sitting out front, if they had dinner yet, and their response was no. We all hop out of car and offered them dinner. We started small talk while preparing their meal and then he offered to let us in. We were all in shock, so we went in and served three men playing pool shepherds pie. This brought me so much joy I can't even explain it. I saw God in this, knowing previous teams were not welcomed in. I think God softened their hearts to have a conversation with someone they never knew and to allow us in was huge. Thank you for the prayers for our team.
THIS YEAR WE HAD IT IN THE BAG (ft JOISE DEAN)
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