A God thing

We had a homeless girl show up on our church doorsteps this morning when we arrived. She was brought here by an SBF girl about the same age who saw her on the street needing help. They'd be up together all night and decided to wait at the church until someone arrived because - "we'll be able to help". That's the first God thing - AND the church at its finest.

Don, the other pastor arrived, saw these two girls and how neither had slept so he dropped one off at home and the other, he put into our prayer room with a blanket, pillow and quiet to sleep. She was obviously high on a few different things, had mental issues and lived more life in her 24 years than should be lived anyone in a lifetime. Doesn't matter though - we're the church - and this is "what we do". A God thing - AND the church at its finest.

I had a meeting scheduled today with Gail, a wonderful woman who is also a chaplain at a shelter downtown so she works with girls like this a lot. In the past 6 months, we've met maybe 2-3 times - but we were scheduled to meet TODAY. This girl awakes and Gail knows just what to say, do and be. So instinctual, loving and compassionate - more in 1 finger than Don or I have in us combined. The perfect person for the situation. I couldn't have thought of a better person. I didn't have to. God already did.

Gail feels it best that she has medical attention so we call 911 even though the girl is adamant not to go to a hospital because she has a troubled history etc. But the ambulance attendants happened to be a friend so the girl feels at ease.

I couldn't script this if I tried. But I never have to - it's already done.