Quick Update

What a week it has been! Summer outreach as begun and our first team for the summer just left. It has been a wonderful, joyous week full of great ministry opportunities and answered prayers. This week at Tompkins Square Park, I was so blessed to be able to help three different guys with housing and drug problems, Adrain, Alfred & Samir. Each of them has a different story of how God has divinely orchestrated our acquaintance.

The moment we got to TSP, Adrain came up to our truck and asked for help. He immediately told me he had a drug problem and needed to get himself into a detox and rehab. Adrain is addicted to crack. He told me he was born again Christian but walked away from God because he felt like a hypocrite but knew this day was from God. After doing an assessment, we looked into getting him into a Christian rehab. Unfortunately, we were not able to find a place that was suitable for his situation, however he told me he was going to check himself into a detox later.

We then talked some more and I encouraged him to continue seeking God and not give up. I shared a bit of my testimony on the struggles in my Christian walk and how some days I want to give up. Especially when you feel like it’s a never ending cycle of messing up, yet, God is so faithful and committed to us, never relenting in His pursuit to save us. As I began to share this, I could tell this gave him some hope and motivation to stay the course.

Please continue to pray for him because I know that he desires freedom but like so many, hopelessness gets the best of them. I’ve learned a lot through these past couple of years and one thing is for certain, God in his unfailing love does not want to leave us in our sins but promises to set the captives free and bring healing to the broken hearted. The streets of New York City are certainly filled with broken hearted people in need of a Savior’s healing touch.

Thank you for all your prayers and support and partnering up with me in bringing the Good News on the streets of NYC.

Also, please check out this video I made for one my classes this semester. In it you hear the testimony of one of my fellow co-workers and a bit of what we do here at Street LIFE.

To Write Love on Her Arms

hey everyone!

I just wanted to re-post this...

God is so good. This is the heart of God crying out over this generation and the lost, this is written so beautifully. Hope you enjoy and may it bless you today.

Love,
Amy

You matter very much.

Posted by Chris Youngblood at 3:42pm

i hope you know you're not the only one who feels the way you feel. You are not the only one who struggles. You are not the only one with questions. You are not crazy. You deserve to be heard, to be known. You deserve love.

You deserve love.

You deserve a place that feels like home. You deserve some hands to hold. Hands to pull you past the broken moments, hands to catch you when you fall. Eyes to see you. To say you're there, that you exist, that you change a room, that your presence is significant. Ears to hear you - hear your stories, hear you laugh. Ears to hear your questions and to say they matter.

Your questions matter.

Maybe call a friend today or invite someone to coffee. Tell someone they matter or tell someone you could use a conversation. Write a letter or ask someone how they're doing. Like a song too much. Feel the drums or get lost in the chorus. It means that you're alive.

It's good that you're alive. Who else could play your part?

i hope you get to a place, wake to a day, where that feels true. You deserve to know it's true.

To Write Love on Her Arms is a community of people with questions and struggles. It is for broken people and it is led by broken people. Life is heavy and light. Life is both. Beauty and pain, aches and dreams... We are saying that it's okay to talk about those things. We are saying that we need to. We are choosing to believe that stories deserve better endings. That hope is real, that help is real, that people need other people.

You are not alone today. You matter very much.

Peace to you.
jamie

Video Update

Hey everyone! thanks for watching.

Been a busy year so far. Gosh so much is happening, I cannot believe it's already April.

We're starting a 40 day 24/7 fasting and praying time (April 12-May 21st)with a few church here in Flushing. Please keep that in your prayer as we enter into this season here.

In the meantime, I pray you'd be blessed by this video update and that you have a blessed day.

Love you all,
Amy

Not For Sale

I recently came across a quote from Annie Besant that I would like to finish with. “Plenty of people wish well to any good cause, but very few care to exert themselves to help it, and still fewer will risk anything in its support. ‘Some one ought to do it, but why should I?’ is the ever reëchoed phrase of weak-kneed amiability. ‘Some one ought to do it, so why not I?’ is the cry of some earnest servant of man, eagerly forward springing to face some perilous duty. Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.” I am not this servant, not yet and maybe never completely. But it seems to be a process worth undertaking, in whatever way we each might be called to. I wish you the best in your process.
-Taken from Matt Harper's biography, Top Ambassador of Not For Sale this month.
http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/news/2010/02/24/top-ambassador-matt-harper/

Reading the quote from Annie Besant got me thinking...
maybe it will bless you too. Once again my heart aches for freedom that comes only thru the Cross of Christ. God would you set the captives free this day and make your Body raise up through the ashes to display your beauty and proclaim Your Glory through all the earth.

Our destiny is recognized only when we deny ourselves and take up the cross daily.

His Servant,
Amy

January Update

I know I am a little late on this video update, but regardless, I pray that you'd be blessed by it!

Here is the link for it...



Also I just want to share a few testimonies and videos from several different things that Street LIFE Ministries have been involved in lately.

New Years Eve Outreach:
During one of our nights of outreach, we decided to start worshipping in the middle of Time Square while waiting on a few people for the subway. God moved so powerfully that night as we had at least 15 minutes of uninterrupted worship by the sidewalk. This was one of the best nights I had throughout the whole outreach and God was so present and exalted. People stoped and joined us to sing and worship. Praise broke out and Jesus was exalted! We even had guys who stopped and danced. What a glorious time it was indeed. Please watch:


Don't Walk By Jan 16th, 2010:
God moved so powerfully as we mobilized 360 volunteers to walk the streets of Midtown Manhattan looking for homeless. 462 homeless were engaged, 127 came back to the church for a hot meal and loving care and 56 people went to faith based rehab programs.
I've been so blessed to be inside the church and a part of the assessement team where I get to meet those who come back and minister to their needs. Check out this slideshow that one of my co-workers put together:

Newsletter Winter 09

Hey Everyone!

Check out my latest newsletter. All you have to do is click on the picture and it will open up the page. Please enjoy all that God is doing here in New York City and I pray that it blesses you.





below is the contact card as well as the invitation with information as to how to RSVP.



Love,
Amy

The New Homeless: Candido Gonzalez at New York's Bowery Mission - DailyFinance

The New Homeless: Candido Gonzalez at New York's Bowery Mission - DailyFinance

This article gets me sooo pumped for next years outreach Don't Walk By.
More and more lately, there's just such an excitement in my heart recognizing the heart of God is for this. God calls His people to put their refuge in Him. In this case, the Bowery has been a place of literal refuge for men and women who have no place of refuge. In a time where it seems like there's nothing but hopeless all around, I stand in awe of how we can see the deliverence of God if we choose to trust Him and believe for the impossible.

Last years DWB was a success and I cannot wait to see what happens this year. This is going to the be the second year in the a row where ministries like the one I serve (Street LIFE Ministries) and other ministries like the Bowery and other ministries that serve the homeless, go and mobilize the Body of Christ to reach the homeless in this city.

Last year I was apart of the volunteers who walked the streets searching for homeless, this year I get to be a part of the team that will connect and bring some of those we encounter to a program and a safe place, using the social work skills I've been learning in school.

For more information, please check out this video of somethings God did last yr, as well as the website www.dontwalkby.org