An Unexpected Midnight mission...

I went out Last night, to a few bars and then onto a club, a well known establishment famous for it's music, cheap drinks and fun times.

At about 2.30 this morning as me and a friend were on the dance floor shaking our groove thing, I suddenly felt a sense of God saying your ' time to go' , but pushed it aside and kept on dancing, until my friend said she also felt God was telling her it was time to leave, as most people know, one of the adorable qualities (some people would say annoying, but I feel they are wrong) about me is that it's quite hard to make me leave a dance floor when I am having a good time. Anyway as we were both feeling this God twinge, we said If the next song that came on was rubbish we would leave, a random song that I have never heard of before came on, which had something like' leave this club' in the chorus, me and my mate guessed that was our que to stop,listen to god and go through the exit.

Once stepping outside into the bitter night, we decieded to just walk around and see where God led us, we prayed a litttle prayer (mine was espically for warmth) and we headed off in any direction. As soon as we got into Coventry centre where all the shops are, we immediately came across 2 lads peeing onto a shop window, as soon as they saw us, they started the usual array of pick up lines, to try and see if we would bite.

After realising this wasnt going to happen, we stated chatting to themand came onto te subject of God, this came about by one of the lads tattoos he had, a 'she' devil and a cross and rosary beads, and his kids names. We got to chat as we walked, about his jail time, about his most imporatant role ever as a loving dad to his kids, and share abit of my story. I said we would pray for him, he said we had made, not his day but his week, he didnt believe that God could love him as he was a pure chav and loved being one, but I told him God could'nt give a rats arse about his chav ness, but saw his heart loved him no matter what. Its was an amazing 15 minute chat, a real gift from God, and as we said our goodbyes, they yelled at us down the road. God Bless you....Fun times.

We trottered off then, to see if we could come across any homless people sleeping rough, as we felt thats what God was leading us to. We walked around Cov for a good 20 mintues in our short skirt's and silly shoes freezing but trying to keep our eyes peeled.

As we came to one of the big churches in Cov we saw a black lump lying in the doorway of the church, and decided to go over. We went over, apologised for waking him up, but he said he wasnt sleeping and we got chatting, about him, his circumstances, what he needs most, and where his regular sleeping spots are. We had a good time, getting to know him and at the end asked if we could pray for him, which he was happy to have.

The guy must have thought we were strange, 2 girls all dolled up walking around the city at 3.00 am looking and being led by God, but he was happy to chat. I remeber us declaring his is valued, and he should never thnk other wise.

Once prayed for we left him some money and said we would definately be trying to find him again in the next few weeks, as we left him I remeber him yelling ' God bless you' (2nd of the night for us) and we were like no mate 'God bless you'. It was such a beautifull and arranged experience by God it made my week.

As we got into the cab, we both realised we didnt have enough money to get home as we gave it all to the homeless guy, we searched and searhed to no avail, we said a small prayer to God and lo and behold My friend found a random 10 pound note in the bottom of her bag. How good is God!

As I got into bed last night with my clean socks and lavender smelling duvet. I thought, ' its not fair' there are so many houses in this coutry, how can there not be room for him. Even now I am thinkng of him. What is he doing with his sunday? Has he eaten? Will he be there again tonight with his shelter of stone and only grave stones for company ?

I dont understand, and I know people will say we shouldnt give him money (he will just spend it on drugs! Does God ask you to give your coat away only when you know where it is going too, I think not!) Or we were irresposible to walk around town, very late at night, 2 young girls looking vunerable, my response to them is ' did Paul and Peter and the disciple crew only do stuff when it was safe, I dont think so!!!

We have made a decision, to go out armed with sandwiches and hot tea next week and few cheap blankets, ( also I will be wearing a hoodie and winter boots, gloves, scarf, long johns etc etc ) and try and carry on our midnight mission. Its crazy he is sleeping in the doorway of a huge empty building with a roof that gives shelter from storms (its other name a church) but cant get it because the doors are locked. I wonder what would Jesus would think?! Now that is interesting!

Here's to another Saturday Night like this!