It has been a long time since I have posted anything. I have been very busy with a variety of times and we have also been in transition. Will post a few things now and post more later. (More)  

We have been so busy lately we have been way behind on ministry updates. Here is a quick update.

1) We have been working with an individual who has schizophrenia. When they are medication they have a sound mind overall even though they at times listen to voices that either are not real or demonic. However, when they are off their medication they go off the deep end and do many crazy things.

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We live just one mile from where the killings took place on Capitol Hill. The Rave that occurred before the all night party is less than a block from where we live.

Carmi and I attended the community meeting that took place on Capitol Hill. What a discouraging meeting. It was worse than what we even expected. It was a huge reminder that we live in one of the most liberal cities and neighborhoods in America.

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We have a young man we are ministering to who has made a re-commitment to the Lord. When we first met him he was filled with pride even though he had gotten released from prison only a few months before we met him.

Over the last couple of months he has been attending leadership classes and hungry to get his life in order. He is much more open to counsel and is coming to us for advice and applying our counsel. He still has a ways to go, but we have seen tremendous progress. He does love the Lord and has a burden to reach the lost, especially the downcast and rejected. He has been helping us in various outreaches.

We will be having to make a long trip for a hearing he has to attend. He does not want to go to his old stomping grounds by himself. Another sign that he is becoming more mature and wise.

It turns out that a woman who we have helped in the past is in jail in the same area that we need to go to the hearing so we are working out the details to visit her at the same time. She wrote us a couple of letters and we talked to her on the phone and she is despondent and feeling suicidal. The good news is that at the jail she is at we know the chaplain for the women at the jail. The have a God's pod at the jail so the chaplain will determine if she is willing to give her life fully to Christ. If so, she can be in the God pod and get some great mentoring.

 

Because of our involvement with the Seattle Police Dept Chaplaincy Program we have more opportunities for ministry. We are now working with a program called GOTS-Get Off the Streets. They have been wanting a faith based organization to work with them. But because of liberal churches in the Capitol Hill area, none of the churches want to work with the police dept.

So they are thrilled to have our organization to provide the spiritual side of things. We have already been asked to preach at an event on Father's Day through another organization that has contact with the police dept.

When we went into a tavern with one of the officer's I was asked why I don't start preaching in the bar. I told the guy he better not encourage me or I meant start coming to preach. He said if I did he would get people off the street to come into the bar. Who knows what might happen.

 

We have been very busy lately. We have some individuals that Carmi and I are mentoring that are requiring much of our time, but they are growing in Christ. Lately they have been making some great changes (but with their past, it takes many great changes). The great news is that they are staying sober and starting to work on some deep rooted issues.

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We are not only helping ML, but we are now helping her daughter, AK. Her daughter is a call girl who has a 'husband' who is her pimp. When we first met her, her 'husband' had beaten her with a golf club. She left him, but went back to him a week later.

Two nights ago she tried to commit suicide by slamming into a break barrier on the freeway. She did not break anything, but she has contusions, major bruises, messed up back, broken rib, and in horrific pain. When the 'husband' picked her up from the hospital he drove her around in the car for hours hitting every bump on the road and swerving the car around. In the last two days since the accident she has gone out on 4 calls.

She finally decided to leave the pimp. She had us pick her up from the house and we took her to prayer and the hospital. She has someone safe to live with for now. We are praying she will never go back to the 'husband'. She actually IS married to someone else, but separated. We met her true husband today.

It has been a very long day. We started picking people up for church at 8:15am and just got home at 9:30pm. Still have work obligations to do. It is very hard at times to be a volunteer minister and to earn an income when you are self-employed. But at least I can be available when needed.