Operation Jesus Storm!

Friday was one great night! At the end of the night I went to sleep with a huge smile on my face because everything was totally handcrafted by God.  It all started when I wrote my last blog on Wednesday. After I posted it, I got on Facebook and this guys named Corey sent me a Facebook chat that said “hey” I have never actually talked to this kid but he said he read my blog and had some questions for me. So I asked him what he wanted to know because I am always willing to be real and honest with people. He said that he wanted to talk about this other than on Facebook chat because it is more important than that. In my head I was totally thinking “ Amen! Someone that can communicate!” So I called Corey after class. We talked for about life and he asked me some questions. At the end of the conversation, he told invited me to Operation Jesus Storm. It is his ministry that he started where he goes downtown Indy and passes out food and coats to the homeless while witnessing to them about Jesus. I automatically loved this idea; I could tell this kid had a heart that he just wants to do whatever he could to serve and honor God.

So Friday night my sister and I went to pick up our two friends Jordan and Trey, we were off to Indy to hang out with people we have never met. I knew it was going to be a challenge but I knew this was exactly where God wanted us all to be. We met up with Corey and John downtown. After only about 10minutes of us all being together, it was like we have known each other for such a long time. John told us all the story of how the Thursday night he prayed really hard about what else he could do beside show up and he decided to dial all the numbers in his phone book and ask his friends to donate coats. John thought that there would only be about one or two people who would actually step up and provide some donation but John was amazed by what God did. As we walked pasted Corey’s car we saw the whole back seat was filled to the top with coats and sweatshirt that were donated. God provided and He defiantly answered John’s prayers.

As we continued to walk around, we saw the homeless people begging for money on the street. I thought about if I was homeless. I don’t know if I could ever lay down my pride and beg for money from others. It is already hard enough for me to accept help from other people, let alone beg for stuff if I had nothing. I thought about how these are people just like me, they have a story that need to be heard.

After a night of serving we all went out for dinner than decided to have a bible study at Starbucks. We were a group of people who didn’t really know each other but by the end of the night we got pretty tight knit. We sat in Starbucks trying to decide which verses we should read and talk about and Corey randomly picked James. We all agreed on James then John randomly picked the second chapter. This is when God did something really cool. The 2^nd chapter of James defiantly talks about loving the poor. It talks about giving food and clothing to the poor and never judging them. We had to stop after reading the first couple verses and thank God for how his hand work though out that whole night and how it ended just reassured all of us that we were all there for a reason. We were all just real and honest with each other and I am so thankful for everyone I got to know and hung out with Friday night because I will never forget that experience. God knew we all needed each other that night and He knew how perfectly it would work with that group of people and I would not have had it any other way.

Corey defiantly has a passion for this ministry and many dreams. If you ever want to come one Friday night with him then defiantly meet him because he is awesome. Also another way to get involved is to support his clothing company, all the profit goes to this ministry. The website is http://www.altruistapparel.com CHECK IT OUT && SUPPORT HIM OR GET INVOLVED J