~Mini AFF Reunion Sunday~

[Sister Alvear]

Thank you for such kind words but in reality we were the ones that were so blessed. Wow, we even got to be with Pastor Keith's father and mother and we found out we know so many of the same people...Thad came over to see us and we had such a lovely after church snack at their house.
Pastor Keith gave Brother Alvear a guitar. We drove away amazed at the love the McCain’s have with the people they work among. I don't know how much has been said but they reach for people that many would not car to reach for...I will let them share what they feel to on that subject. I will only say once before I was invited to speak at a mission that was full of street people in Indiana.

Let me tell you a little about the street people I ministered to in Indiana. My son Andre was with me. That day I had a migraine headache and was ever so sick but I pushed with all my strength. I expected no money from those people I only went to bless them.

I ate with them in their soup kitchen, then we gathered and I showed slides of Brazil and at that time I had my slides from the leper colony. Those street people that had no home, nothing, many were what others considered trash, wine-os and whatever...Their shoes were mismatched, clothes were mission hand me downs but all of a sudden one of them got up with a little bad and some change brought it to me...before it was over I had over a hundred dollars worth of change and much of it was pennies!
Sometime during the process God healed my aching head and I prayed with those men and women...
Someway I had met the pastor and he knew I was coming through and he had told me any time to stop by if I wanted to that they always had food and would find me a bed...

And what I say here will shock most of you...they were not Jesus Name to my knowledge. The pastor was not there so I do not really know...I was there in passing but I say this to our shame...Where are we ONENESS folks? Are we to busy building our kingdoms that we have forgotten as a whole (not all) the lost HURTING world...I am not one of those that are against nice buildings. In fact we have a beautiful headquarters church in Brazil and many other nice buildings…however we must never forget the real purpose of HIS coming and real purpose of the church. He came for His lost earthly family. He was not impressed by the temple of his day…if fact he talked about a day stone would not be upon stone…so we must see these earthly things as just a blessing to do the REAL work of God.

It was to these people Jesus preached to...the sinner...the crude fishermen, the Samaritan women, the tax collector ( a turn coat) and even had time for the children…

Well, my goodness I have high jacked the thread. Anyway the service last night brought back memories of a little mission I spoke at in passing…I was invited to eat and sleep for free…my greatest blessing was to be received by some that would be considered earth’s outcasts…I feel in love with them!

Now back to last night…I witnessed the tremendous burden Keith and Elizabeth have…I was so blessed by their kindness.