Love Lives Here

Greetings,

A number of weeks ago I started volunteering at an inner city ministry called Love Lives Here. They have a church service on Thursday evenings for the homeless. They serve food and have musicians playing praise and worship music. The volunteers visit with people and pray with people. Someone will shared from the Word of God. It is located near the Salvation Army, close to Higgins and Main, down-town Winnipeg. On Friday evenings they drive a mini-bus through the North End and the West End and visit and pray with the women working on the streets. They give food and water or even Bible tracts to those who want. Some times the women don't want to talk but other times they do. Someone had put a bug in my ear a year earlier and I had made connections with one person at LLH but hadn't ever followed up on it because it didn't work with my schedule. Now I have finally started volunteering and I am very thankful for it. I have found that it is a safe place for me to grow in learning how to love my neighbours. The other volunteers are very wonderful and encouraging people. To me LLH is a community and I am glad for the fellowship I have when I am there.

It is my hope and prayer, for myself and for the church, that we would all learn to love our neighbours as we love ourselves. Jesus said, 'Whatever you did for one of the least of these, you did for me'. LORD, teach us how to love our neighbours, amen.