Last night

Last night at the soup run, i meet a guy who used to be in jail, he has been out for a while, however he is finding it very difficult to get a job... No one wants to hire an ex-con, no matter what he done. He wants to work and is willing to work, he may have a job next week, but he will have to travel to and from murray bridge (at least 100km from adelaide). He used to be qualified as a Security Guard (which he can't do now), and he has a qualification as a mechanic, however it was before cars had computerised systems, so it doesn't really count. This guy wants to get his life together, however he can't because of this, it sucks... i told him that i'll ask around the salvos here to see if we can help him out... surely this part of what the salvos are meant to be doing. And serisiously if a salvo gave him a job, and fully got a long side him, imgine the mentorship sort of relationship they could build, and see him come to Christ in a huge way..

I also met this lady, she to had been to prison in the past, and has been on drugs, she has 3 kids, the 2 older ones are teenagers. She has had the youngest one taken off her, the older 2 were hanging around the wrong people in Adelaide and were getting in to trouble, so she sent them up to the riverland, to stay with her uncle and she is going to move up there, she has already ot a house there. She is also fighting to regain her youngest child. She has to go to AA meetings. apparently there is only a couple up that way and the closest one is 30mins away, and she has no trouble... So i said that i will get in contact with the salvos up there, and see, if there is anyway that they can help, whether someone picks her up or a a few people taking it in turns.. Imagine the impact that sort of contact with someone could make, and allowing God to work through you.

Sometime the biggest impact that we can have on someone for Christ is to help them practically with their needs, cause people nearly always ask, why, why are you doing this for me... and it leaves the door wide open to share the gospel with them.