One week after returning from our mission trip. (Why it is sometimes hard to adapt when you come home).
While we were there in Winnipeg for our mission trip, we spent five days in full-time connection with the various parts of the Winnipeg Inner City Mission. During that short time, a number of very significant things happened: A young girl in the church went missing from her family. Another young girl, in desperate need of a new kidney, successfully underwent surgery that would allow her continue her daily dialysis The church was putting together household items to set up housekeeping for a young mother and her children as she was in the process leaving an abusive relationship. A resident in A Place of Hope celebrated two years of sobriety. Another resident reached the end of her time in A Place of Hope and made arrangements to move out and begin a new and exciting phase in her life A church picnic (that had been as good as cancelled) was resurrected and organized in about two hours. This was, as far as I can tell, a fairly typical week at Winnipeg Inner City Mission with big d...