12-14-24
We were anticipating this event especially, since it was the first event that would kick off our official once-a-month scheduling and the transition to our new programming structure. God blew us away, once again, with TWENTY-FIVE volunteers! We’ve never had so many people show up, and it was such a big group that we had to do our photo outside. Such a small thing, but such an encouragement as we start this new season of Neighbors.
Moving forward, we will be meeting the second Saturday of every month, serving 100 unhoused neighbors, and meeting from 9am to noon. Standardizing our day-of program, having both hygiene and note kits prepped and ready for final assembly before the event itself, and having notes written will allow us to spend a short time with all hands on deck to assemble the whole kits. This way, we can spend an hour or so of designated team bonding, training, and small group prayer time before we go out and meet with our neighbors. So encouraged by this event and the helping hands, and we can’t wait for next month!
You can check out the full gallery from today here.
Some post-outreach prayer requests:
- Arly: pray for them to experience more happiness.
- Louisa: pray for finding a home and her husband is in jail
- Sug: pray for sleep and no nightmares or voices in her head.
- Wayne: pray for “everything”.
- Sauce: pray for his fellow friends on the streets
- Trish: pray for fibromyalgia and hamstring pain
- Kat : pray she sees her mother in Texas, recovering from identity theft, trying to stabilize and find a place to live
- Sorria: pray for her to get home and she’s not from Denver
- Keith: pray for provision for propane tank to cook his food and heat this tent
- (Lady with black hat and coat): 3rd time getting scammed. Five days ago (from 12-14) she was scammed and lost everything. She appreciates prayer very much
- Nick: pray for him as he was arrested in CO and has been stuck here ever since, has estranged relationship with his family in AZ
- Raul: prayers that he is able to continue praying and praising God
- Eric: pray for community and to be part of something where he gets to talk to people; that he is able to keep his apartment
- Evance: loves Jesus, knows he was bought at a price (amen), wants to start a ministry
- Christine: pray for housing and money. She has a bipolar daughter who she has a struggled relationship with - has kids out of town as well, one has bipolar and one has ADD
- David: pray for all the kids in the world and grateful for hot coffee!
- Cory: we met Cory (aka, Kid) who was very open to us about his suicidal thoughts. He is confused about how society can treat unhoused people the way they do. He has specifically asked us to pray for him to be reunited with his dog Cinnamon, who was taken away from him, and is being asked $450 to get him back. Cory is having a hard time trusting in Gods plan for his life, but travels around with a Bible and quoted scripture quite frequently. He wants all of us to pray for everyone around us, since he believes society needs more prayers than him specifically
- Pops & Azul: praise God that he gets his apartment January 1 due to the VA - he served in the army and we’re thankful for his service
- John: pray for his family because they are all over the world, and needs prayer for him to be uplifted in this season of life
- Dan: previous pastor, feels far from God pray for him to get a bus ticket so he can go to rehab again
- Ramone: pray for connection with his family.
- Kenny: pray for his family during the holidays.
- Rao, Kevin, Ryan, and Austin: pray for family & physical healing.
- Cory Scott: pray for everyone to be connected and unified
- William and Chris: pray for them because they don’t have family and for people to unite.
- Michael: he became a Christian through prison. Got baptized in prison. A lot more sin being homeless versus being in prison. Drugs and prostitution. Praying for his mom and sister, who live in Pueblo they are catholic but praying for every day struggles. Julia and Elaine. Worked in the part of prison where they made clothes and there were two men there that practiced memorizing and talked about bible versus and they asked if he wanted to join them memorizing a verse and he picked John 3:16. We invited him to church after that. He goes every once in a while now. Not doing much during the week but on social security and disability; would be open to a part time job. Knows about open doors ministry. Holds a lot of peace. He agrees that is a big part of what someone needs. Stays alone to keep away from temptation and reads his bible on his phone through his day. Fighting to keep himself pure. In the same spot by the bus station usually.
- Jon: he drinks to get through his day, so pray that he would be able to find relief and hope in Jesus.
- Fran, Derek, Anthony: pray for their family.
- Daniel: Experienced a bad situation with a doctor who was overdosing him for years. He was placed into a facility for 75 days and lost his home during that time. He is a baptist. He had an experience in church of a possible sign from god of a second coming of christ. We can pray for him to find a warm place to sleep. Has been trying to get off the streets as homeless shelter are not in best shape. Asked us to give him a phone number for resources.
- Emma and Jason: Doesn't believe there is a god, doesn’t believe there isn’t. Grew up Christian his whole life. He had a lot of questions about God and faith and Christians, and wanted answers, so pray that he can continue to have those questions and seek the truth about them, and that he would find that truth in the Word and nothing else.
- Marissa and Humberto: pray for family friends. Pray for peace. Humberto would like us to pray for Marissa to get her priorities in order..
- Humberto: pray for him to stay strong and not to fall into temptation.
- Leondra: pray she gets her housing voucher. We’ve connected with her in the past and checked in with her as she mentioned she was going to share her faith with others. She has a friend who was deep into drugs and his family is falling apart because of it.
- Amelia: pray for her to have strength.
- Ron: pray for him to be able to get off drugs.
- Cecilia: pray for trafficking issues within the homeless community.
Our neighbors that didn’t have specific prayer requests, but that we’d like to pray for anyway:
- James
- Kew
- Nathalie
- Bear
- Alan
- Joe
- Louise
- Lony
