Assaulted on the Street

Last night, after dinner and time with the team from YWAM, two of our young men from our group were walking down the street to retrieve a car from the parking lot of a nearby church. As they passed the corner of Chase and Fergus, two young men ran out, asked them if they were from here, and one of them punched Michael in the face...

Michael is a new member of our community here. He is the son of a very praying mother, over on the West Side, in Cheviot.

he has been a professionally sponsored Biker (like bikes on halfpipes and obstacle courses with tricks and all, like backflips) for a while, traveling the world and whatnot. He is very experienced in the things of this world, but some months back he became a follower of Jesus, a Christian, and now he is in "training".

When Michael got home, his nose had stopped bleeding, and there was almost no swelling of the cheek that had been struck. He was angry. he was contemplating what was done in his "old world". In his "old world", he and all his friends would come out and beat up whoever did it, adn all their friends, too. So this was a really different world he was in, last night, as we all bowed and prayed for his attacker, our neighborhood, and all...