So we spent a week in the city of Vancouver. We got there on the 22nd for a free weekend, when we were able to go around the city to become familiar with it. We were in Vancouver to do the Urban Plunge - this is our second one on the trip. I remember on the Saturday of the free weekend, we were in the mall having lunch, and this guy came up to Matt and asked him what he was reading. Matt replied, "the Bible". This guy knew some of the bible too. When he was walking away, I noticed that his pants were dirty and had holes everywhere. I said: "God, if he needs help, let me know". Five minutes later I saw him going through the garbage trying to find food. My first reaction was to get up and ask him if he wanted lunch. His name is Joel and he loves working on a farm and milking cows. He plays guitar and keyboard, and his favourite genre is rock. Over that weekend, God called a lot of us to help some of the homeless. I thought it was so cool that God used us even before the Urban Plunge started.
There are so many stories that I want to tell, but I don't have the time to share them all. I would like to end with a man named Steven King. Kate, Nadine, Darren and I were walking down the East Side of Vancouver and handing out lunches, notes and hugs to people when we met this man who was drunk, high and had lost $300. We asked if he wanted a hug. He replied that he was never loved before. The first hug he got almost made me cry. I could see in his eyes how much it meant to him. We decided to have lunch with Steven. He was starving, so I was glad that we had his favourite sandwich for him. He read his note and started to cry because no one had ever done that for him. At the bottom of the note he asked us to read the verse we put on it for him. He asked us if God loved him at all. We told him that God loved him so much that he died for him, and then we gave him another hug. He is a man who desperately needs God's love - if you could pray for him, that'd be great.
Joshua Droogh
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