What did you leave them with?

//Here is a post from Tessa, a student whose in Appalachia with her youth group this week. I chose it to show to you because after I read it I wondered how my actions affected those whom I’ve never seen again.//

My group worked with a local ministry called “Stepping Out” and they provided assistance to the local government housing areas.  Chelsea, Austin and myself were in a group going door-to-door promoting a block party that they are having Thursday night.  We approached a lady sitting on her front porch and I asked her how she was doing.  She said she was okay and I asked her if she had every heard of Stepping Out.  She said “Oh yeah…I’ve heard of them!”  I took that as a hint that maybe they had helped her before but she quickly corrected me and said they had never done anything for her…and she used some profanity I might add…so I apologized on behalf of the organization and asked if there was anything we could do for her.  She said no but started talking to us about her health.  By the end of the conversation, we were praying with her and she wanted to make sure that we went next door to talk to her daughter!  Later, we met up with another group of 3 from our church and Haley said, “that old lady over there sitting on her front porch is soooo nice!”  They had approached her not realizing we already had…

It was such an awesome feeling to know that God’s love had spoken through us to soften her heart to the others that would come her way that day!