hope, love, redemption // part 2

continuation from yesterday …

In addition to offering hope to our community, another value that we believe strongly in is to offer the love of Jesus Christ to everyone. I realize that this seems to to be a given, but it is extremely important. In fact offering hope and love go hand-in-hand.

Here are a few examples of how individuals from the Gospel Center offered love to those around them just in these past 24 hours.

• Being with a family as their fourteen-year-old child was taken to a juvenile facility in handcuffs and shackles.

• Offering comfort to a family from Haiti that has received daily news of close friends who are now dead.

• Walking with a friend who has had to pick up the pieces of their life and start over.

• Being a source of love to a frustrated single mom.

• Helping to feed and clothe those who lost so much in the fire yesterday.

Some ways were small, others were time consuming, but in the end, everyone of these examples were offered love tangibly.