After finding out that there were homeless families living at a certain hotel in the city,

we were anxious to get a team together to go in and share God's love with the kids. We were able to get permission from the hotel management to hold a Club Hope there and were asked to make up invitations so they could pass them out to all the families.

We gathered a team of 5 adults and 7 teenagers and spent time training, preparing, and praying. We arrived at the hotel in the freezing cold. As we were preparing the room, the fire alarm went off! Outside we saw parents coming out of the hotel with children without coats or shoes. We offered them our van for shelter and many of them took us up on the offer. After a few minutes we were cleared to go back in and resume our event. Kids wanted to be held and loved on. They enjoyed singing the songs and learning a Bible verse.

God keeps breaking our hearts more and more for kids like these. The hotel staff asked us to come back weekly! Over time, we discovered that we needed to find a space of our own in order to be more effective at reaching & helping the kids. God has now provided a location for weekly Club Hope events!

On a final note....During the fire alarm, a young woman got into our van to keep her two month old baby out of the cold. He was crying inconsolably. After about 5 minutes, one of our team members got into the van, sat next to the mother, and held her baby boy and was able to settle him and get him to sleep. As she looked at him, she couldn't help but wonder what the future held for him. She wondered if he was going to grow up to live in hopelessness or if he would ever know that there is real Hope...Jesus. She prayed that God would make Himself known to this precious baby boy and that He would draw him to Himself, show Him Jesus at an early age, and make him a man of God.

That is why we are trying to reach the kids - so that from childhood they can know God, know His love and grace, make decisions that are pleasing to Him and as a result change the course of a new generation.

God can totally do that!