It’s been a busy week at the Power House in Baltimore, Maryland.
It started out with a full day on Sunday. Before services Danny mopped the floors before setting up for the services. During Morning Worship the message was from final chapter of the Gospel of Mark.
As soon as the service was over, Tamara, Jenn, and I went over to Theresa’s house. She was home for the weekend from Job Corps so we helped her move back. While waiting for her to be ready we met up with a young adult from the congregation who we had not seen since he had gotten out of jail earlier in the week.
Theresa’s cousin came along for the ride out to the Job Corps center in Laurel. After dropping off Theresa, we took the opportunity to discuss with the cousin her pregnancy with her and get some better nutrition in her system.
During the activity time at Kids’ Church we had puzzle and coloring pages for the kids to work on. In trying to help them keep on task I started visiting with some of the older boys. I asked one of them how many people lived in his house. He said “7.” The boys sitting next to him, who I learned lived in the same house, began debating his number. One was pretty firmly set to the number 5 while the other was at “at least 9.” This seemingly simple initial question blew up into a heated argument about defining what it means for someone to actually live at a house.
After Kids’ Church we took Courtney to Burger King for a milkshake. She’d earned it through participation at church activities and was both eager and pleased to go and have people pay that much attention to her.
We had one person at Evening Worship in the middle of some personal trauma she was not equipped to handle well. She had a bit of a melt down during the service and eventually isolated herself from the rest of the group. Once the service was over it took some work to get her to have the courage to leave the building and go back home.
We spent some time this week working on soliciting funds to send kids to camp this summer. We estimate that we need to raise an additional $3000 to cover the camperships. A friend of the church is putting an article about sending kids to camp in her industry’s newsletter and hopes to help send a few kids to camp that way.
Around 95 kids participated in Wednesday’s SonRisers activities. That evening at Adult Disciples we started our study of the book “Prince Caspian.”
We began working on seeing if we could accommodate some additional Narcotics Anonymous meetings in our weekly activities at the church. One local group has outgrown its current space and is looking for a new home. If we can get staffing lined up we could soon have a total of four different NA meetings happening each week in the church facilities.
Friday night brought our three Pizza Church sessions. Each of the groups was a little smaller than normal yet we had some kids we hadn’t seen in a while show up that night.
Robert signed the papers to start renting a house in the neighborhood this week. He’ll be moving into it in the coming days.
We had several different things happening on Saturday. Gloria helped host a clean-up day in Carroll Park. Several of us participated in our Mission Center Conference in Springfield, Virginia. Our apostle, Len Young, was at the conference so the mission center staff met with him afterward.
Looking ahead to next week we’ll have our regular schedule of activities. In addition, we’ll be taking some kids who have come to church at least 20 times this year out for milkshakes. On Wednesday morning I’ll be meeting with other local community development leaders to coordinate and support one another’s programs. Next Saturday is our monthly Solid Rock Café.
Along with the individuals and activities mentioned, please keep the following individuals in the forefront of your prayers:
Steven
Jordan
Cherin
Pere
Maurice
David
Dajia
Kenyatta
Thank you for your continued prayer support.
Jeff and everyone at
The Power House
“Building the Kingdom of God Here and Now”
PowerHouseMD@Juno.com
www.pigtownchurch.org
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