07/24/2025
I had finished meeting with a pastor friend and some missionaries that were in town and was waiting in the church lobby for the work day to end when some people start coming in the door and my friend Gerson comes out to say its a group of people that meet once a month to go do local missions around Minneapolis and get to know their community better, and would I like to come share with them about what I do with Mission Field Media.
So, of course, I said sure!
Then they told me they were heading downtown to meet up with a ministry called Breakthrough Ministries, who work with the homeless downtown and also serve as chaplains to the police department and so tonights outreach would be to take some food to them and go talk and pray with them if they wanted and just get to know them etc.
So, I had an early flight out this morning but when they invited me to come along, I couldn’t help myself. I think I have missions FOMO 🤣.
But I’m so glad I went! I got to meet and hang out with some amazing people. Make more connections. See more hands on ministry in Minneapolis and get more people connected.
We also got to sit in on the briefing for the overnight shift and let me tell you, the stuff they deal with on the daily is WILD! Two cops had been stabbed just the night before! Not to mention all the stress of the unrest and eyes and hate of the world that’s been on them since the unrest in 2020.
Regardless of your opinion on all that, there’s a lot of good people putting their lives on the line that had nothing to do with it, one way or another, and they literally lost 2/3rds of their patrolmen after that happened because so many were afraid for their lives. So the ones left are short staffed and still showing up to serve and put their lives on the line for other people. That takes some big time guts! So it was our honor to serve them and pray with them.
And we somehow got out of there without Gerson getting tased, no matter how many times I asked them to do it 🤣.
Like I always tell people, keep your YES on the table, and see what adventures God will lead you into! Make a difference with your life!