Noble acts

Yesterday a friend call me, sharing that he wanted to help a teen that was struggling. In fact, my friend had a friend come to him and give him $50  and asked him to find a place to help a troubled teen. My friend came by and  handed me $50 and asked that it go to someone that could really use it. 


This afternoon, Will (one of my advisory board ) and I had the honor of meeting a young man from our city that is in crisis. He is 19 years old and is basically all alone. He is trying to make it on his own but has suffered setback after setback. He came to us through a reference from someone else in the city. All the teen was told was that "he was going to meet a group from a church". 


He came to us with apprehension as he is "not religious" at all. He was worried that once we found out he wasn't in to church that we might not be interested in helping him and that he would have to go to church for us to help him. We quickly helped him to understand that we were not helping him to get him to go to church, we were wanting to help him because we cared. We are also not a church group!


As we purchased him a meal and began to let him talk he really opened up. He began to share about his need for work, and that he was honest and just needed someone to give him a chance. We let him know that we believed in him and that we were there to support him any way that we could. He once again expressed his amazement that there were actually people who would really have concern for him and that would help.


God's timing is great, and  I was able to purchase a $50 gift card for food for the young man that we were chatting with today. That blessed him! It will also be a blessing to the folks that wanted to invest in a teen in need .


At the end of out time together I told him again that we cared and that I was going to do something else. I told him I was going to get others to pray for him. He said that would be "a very noble thing to do". He was truly touched by this. So friends please join me in "this noble act" of praying for Andrew. He needs our prayers and he needs God to move in the challenges that he faces.


I am so thankful that God continues to send these precious teens across our path. I am also thankful for ministry partners like Will who has the same heart for people as we do in the Boaz ministry. I am truly grateful for God's timing and His provision!