So last night starting at 11pm eight of us went to Hollywood to pass out roses and gospels and pray with anyone willing outside some strip clubs and high populated prostituting and transvestite streets... Met a lot of interesting characters! we actually built better relationships with some of the men out there then actual prostitutes... but let me tell you something just hits your gut when you see women walking down the street wearing so little that they might as well not be wearing anything at all! And they there is just something wrong when you see 3 cab drivers in a 20 minute period get pulled over and arrested but there are pimps and their prostitutes 20 feet away and no one intervenes there... I mean call me silly, but I thought prostitution was illegal in California! Not that I want prostitutes to be arrested, I would have loved for their pimps to be somewhere else so I could give them a hug and a warm coat and pray with them, but it is just the perspective of what is "OK" here... like in Santa Cruz cops walking by and do nothing about the hippies smoking pot right there in front of them! What kind of world is this!! OH GOD PLEASE HAVE MERCY ON US!!! ... but we got to meet some interesting people and talk about their lives and just listen, further the relationships that the full time people at the Dream CEnter are building and then on both Hollywood Blvd. and Sunset Blvd. we got to get into these big circles with these dues with all kinds of backgrounds and pray out loud right there on 2 of the busiest streets in Hollywood!!! Isn't that awesome, probably the best time I have had since I got here!!!
Well after that we drove a couple people home that Michelle the group leader haas been building relationship with... and they said it was close, bless their hearts... it took 35 minutes with absolutely no traffic to get there, which would have been totally chill but it was 3 in the morning by the time we left the streets... we got home/back to the Dream Center at 4:30 in the morning... I slept through (accidentally) 7am breakfast and woke up at 9:20am... I really needed a shower but church starts at 10:00 and the last shuttle to church leaves at 9:45... church is only a couple blocks away but I had never had to walk the way before, especially by myself and I was only half sure how to get there... but I took a shower and got ready to go by 10am... knew it would take bout 15 minutes or so to walk there.,.. I figured I could be a little late and it'd be ok, sometimes it is nice to be able to slip in the back when no one is looking and be able to just chill with Jesus! but the more I walked the more I started to get insecure, what if everything was quiet when I got there or the pastor was right in the middle of preaching and one of the ushers insisted on seating me and this 2000+ church was all staring at me... but I just prayed that God would help me get there safe and at the right place and that it would be really simple for me to slip in... I found it and got there and there was a couple other people just getting there and I actually knew the usher who seated me, it was shelly (whose outreach I went on yesterday) and he was really polite and discreet about it and I actually got a really close to the front seat, like 10 to 12 rows back! it was so good, the pastor preached on not letting out dreams outgrow our spiritual growth... our personal growth with Jesus in our souls should always out grow our dreams and visions!!
After church I got to walk to Echo Park... it is right next to the church... it is the only real (somewhat real) piece if nature and tranquility I've seen since I got here! It was beautiful, I'll upload pictures tomorrow!! There were actual geese and ducks there!! there is a lake and a bridge and it is right in the middle of west LA... funny...
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WOW, Kimmy it sounds great!!! Isn't it amazing how much you can miss the trees once you get to the city? Love ya, keep up the good work.
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