My beard is indicating that JP is the man for schoolin' the Wavers on life in the hood. We started the tour here, in Northside, across from McPerry's sarisari store, where there's a brisk corner trade in inhalants.
We loved hosting this group and we hope we see them all again.
come live here with us and let's pray down kingdom come!
Saturday, December 10, 2005
WAVE USA visit
you got yer basic:
Smitty
Jennifer
Youhee
JP
o geez what's your name? you forgot a bag of stuff. Seth loved you so much. You left a big chunk of your heart here with him... we all love you and i'll remember your name later...
Ian
Aaron
Elphie
in this picture, at a park, getting a "tour".
Smitty
Jennifer
Youhee
JP
o geez what's your name? you forgot a bag of stuff. Seth loved you so much. You left a big chunk of your heart here with him... we all love you and i'll remember your name later...
Ian
Aaron
Elphie
in this picture, at a park, getting a "tour".
Me and My beard
this is me (Luke/Lew) giving a tour of cincinnati. I was trying to be knowledgable, but JP had the inside scoop on the city stuff. he led the tour, really.
I just used my beard to point to stuff... i really like my beard...
I just used my beard to point to stuff... i really like my beard...
7 Wavers from YWAM, in Cinci
November 21, 2005 - 6 Wavers hit the ghettos of Cincinatti
I had no idea where we were going into when I raised my hand to go to Cincinnati. I didn’t know that I will have to continue to share the bathroom with not only 8 guys (when we were in Indiana) but with 10 guys when we go there. I didn’t know we were going from long sleeve shirt to a coat, muffler, mitten, two layers of pants and shirts which I didn’t have.
Sometime, that’s what it’s like to live a life of Jesus. We met Luke and his bunch at the worst ghetto area that I have ever been to. They looked so out of place, no wonder the many churches and Christians does not fully understand what they are trying to do there. What they are trying to do is to live ‘Jesus’ and live ‘love’. In this 100% non-white neighborhood, they just looked out of place, just like Jesus who looked so out of place in many places he went to. He went to the land of Samaritan to talk to this Samaritan woman, and went to the tax payers’ house to hang out with them. I could easily picture Luke and his friends in places like a youth group, bible study, mission committee, but they were here, truly following His commandment to love one another as we love ourselves.
I have to confess that my definition of ‘loving one another haven’t stretch that far yet. My prayer is that He will stretch our minds and worlds to see what His love really looks like in real life. I hope it is yours too.
-Youhee Lee
Bayside, New York
I had no idea where we were going into when I raised my hand to go to Cincinnati. I didn’t know that I will have to continue to share the bathroom with not only 8 guys (when we were in Indiana) but with 10 guys when we go there. I didn’t know we were going from long sleeve shirt to a coat, muffler, mitten, two layers of pants and shirts which I didn’t have.
Sometime, that’s what it’s like to live a life of Jesus. We met Luke and his bunch at the worst ghetto area that I have ever been to. They looked so out of place, no wonder the many churches and Christians does not fully understand what they are trying to do there. What they are trying to do is to live ‘Jesus’ and live ‘love’. In this 100% non-white neighborhood, they just looked out of place, just like Jesus who looked so out of place in many places he went to. He went to the land of Samaritan to talk to this Samaritan woman, and went to the tax payers’ house to hang out with them. I could easily picture Luke and his friends in places like a youth group, bible study, mission committee, but they were here, truly following His commandment to love one another as we love ourselves.
I have to confess that my definition of ‘loving one another haven’t stretch that far yet. My prayer is that He will stretch our minds and worlds to see what His love really looks like in real life. I hope it is yours too.
-Youhee Lee
Bayside, New York
YWAM WAVE REPORT ABOUT THEIR VISIT HERE
Youhee from the YWAM Wave usa team wrote up this little article. you can find it by going on "Smitty's Blogspot" and clickign the WAVE USA link, or by pasting in:
http://www.thewaveusa.com/whhas/oh/112105.php
it is interesting to be called Luke. I get that a lot. Lew is a funny name. Thanks, though, Mom.
Anyway, I put in the article just below here with a photo of the team. I'llnow proceed to blog in the rest of the photos of the team...
http://www.thewaveusa.com/whhas/oh/112105.php
it is interesting to be called Luke. I get that a lot. Lew is a funny name. Thanks, though, Mom.
Anyway, I put in the article just below here with a photo of the team. I'llnow proceed to blog in the rest of the photos of the team...
Instrument of Peace
"Make me an instrument of your peace;
where there is hatred...
where there is injury...
where there is doubt...
where there is despair...
where there is darkness...
and where there is sadness...
Look! Look at WHERE! Yet do we gravitate, as Christians to such places? Such circumstances?
after writing that last post, i think of all of you out there who yearn to serve, and who would Love to just chuck it all and live an adventure with Jesus, sinking your life fully into Mercy and grace.
go for it. Jesus talked about selling all and giving to the poor and becoming His disciple. I'd like to see you do it.
go for it.
don't let the seeming harshness of what i write gouge you deeply. let it spur you on.
step out of the boat. you just might float. take a chance...
i know that the devil is always ready to give us another chance on down the line to get rich and die fat and happy, so don't worry, you'll be able to get plenty of stuff accumulated later, if you decide that living 100% is too much for you...
...but something tells me that you're the lean and hungry type.
go for it... find community among like minded radicals and get loving the poor and lowly. get close to the dirt and get farming the word into communities that don't know love, yet. be an instrument of peace
where there is hatred...
where there is injury...
where there is doubt...
where there is despair...
where there is darkness...
and where there is sadness...
Look! Look at WHERE! Yet do we gravitate, as Christians to such places? Such circumstances?
after writing that last post, i think of all of you out there who yearn to serve, and who would Love to just chuck it all and live an adventure with Jesus, sinking your life fully into Mercy and grace.
go for it. Jesus talked about selling all and giving to the poor and becoming His disciple. I'd like to see you do it.
go for it.
don't let the seeming harshness of what i write gouge you deeply. let it spur you on.
step out of the boat. you just might float. take a chance...
i know that the devil is always ready to give us another chance on down the line to get rich and die fat and happy, so don't worry, you'll be able to get plenty of stuff accumulated later, if you decide that living 100% is too much for you...
...but something tells me that you're the lean and hungry type.
go for it... find community among like minded radicals and get loving the poor and lowly. get close to the dirt and get farming the word into communities that don't know love, yet. be an instrument of peace
Downer Posts
I just gave the address of this blog to my aunt. I love you, aunt Pat. I don't know if you'll like this blog, but we are who we are and I love you from right here...
but you know, lately i've heard that our blog is kind of a downer. I mean that there is a lot of... criticism, here.
Well, you're right. There is. Yes, we're getting a little critical. But is that such a bad thing? I mean, if we weren't to mention that, in this city the individual poor people we meet tell us that the institutional solutions to poverty aren't worth a dime, wouldn't that be...neglectful of our duty to inform?
If we were to neglect reminding the Chruch that, while it's impressive on some level that we've built the $10million facility/$12/$14million facility... did you know that the churches that i know of (just 3 or four) in the Cinci area (Faith E-Free in Milford, Hope church in Mason, Crossroads in Oakley) among them have sunk somewhere in the ballpark of 12, 13, 14... 39million dollars into building projects?
and chris froze to the ground... FROZE TO THE GROUND... last christmas season. A christian brother who went to one of these churches... As they put it, "he fell through the cracks".
now, before we blame some individual church, let's look at our own lives. Do we have houses? Money? Time? Would we if we changed our lifestyles to fit our beliefs? yes. You see, the institutional approach has done its best. It is not enough. The Church has to be more than an institution. It has to be US. Cassi, Zach, Lew, Judy, Christine, Danielmatt, Chris, Chris, Arsenne, Adam, Aimee--US. And we need to be about the basics of hospitality and love.
our fathers in the church have not taught us how to do this. We haven't been given how to obey the simple commandment of Jesus about sharing our lives and our stuff with the poor and the prisoner from the generations of american churchgoers before us. But we still have the full responsibility fo rthiis!
So, well, if it's a downer, I'm not sorry at all. I hope you decide to join into the joy of the Lord and serve Him at the expense of this world.
but you know, lately i've heard that our blog is kind of a downer. I mean that there is a lot of... criticism, here.
Well, you're right. There is. Yes, we're getting a little critical. But is that such a bad thing? I mean, if we weren't to mention that, in this city the individual poor people we meet tell us that the institutional solutions to poverty aren't worth a dime, wouldn't that be...neglectful of our duty to inform?
If we were to neglect reminding the Chruch that, while it's impressive on some level that we've built the $10million facility/$12/$14million facility... did you know that the churches that i know of (just 3 or four) in the Cinci area (Faith E-Free in Milford, Hope church in Mason, Crossroads in Oakley) among them have sunk somewhere in the ballpark of 12, 13, 14... 39million dollars into building projects?
and chris froze to the ground... FROZE TO THE GROUND... last christmas season. A christian brother who went to one of these churches... As they put it, "he fell through the cracks".
now, before we blame some individual church, let's look at our own lives. Do we have houses? Money? Time? Would we if we changed our lifestyles to fit our beliefs? yes. You see, the institutional approach has done its best. It is not enough. The Church has to be more than an institution. It has to be US. Cassi, Zach, Lew, Judy, Christine, Danielmatt, Chris, Chris, Arsenne, Adam, Aimee--US. And we need to be about the basics of hospitality and love.
our fathers in the church have not taught us how to do this. We haven't been given how to obey the simple commandment of Jesus about sharing our lives and our stuff with the poor and the prisoner from the generations of american churchgoers before us. But we still have the full responsibility fo rthiis!
So, well, if it's a downer, I'm not sorry at all. I hope you decide to join into the joy of the Lord and serve Him at the expense of this world.
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