Today's outreach was especially good. Earlier this week, in one of the usual neighborhoods that we serve, there was a suicide-murder. A young mother was killed and then her attacker took his life. It was a horrible tragedy leaving three young boys in foster care and a neighborhood in pain.
Today we passed out Christmas wrapping paper, candy for the kids, and Bibles. Barb and a friend of ours have adopted one of the families so we gave the mother a number of gifts (already wrapped) for her to present to her kids for Christmas.
Normally as we pass out things we occasionally have chances to pray with some of the families. This week, in addition to that, after we finished with the hand outs, we gathered in a public area to pray for the hurt caused by this recent tragedy. Some of the neighborhood came out to join us. Black and white, young and old, there we stood praying to the one living God that His Spirit would come and bring peace and answers to this hurting family and community. Our friend read a poem written by some of the neighborhood children (Kenny McCoy, Keishia Dixon, Ondria Gadsen, and Absalom Frakes).
To Rasheena Davis With Love
Rasheena Davis was our neighbor and friend,
Yesterday, on December 12th, her life came to an end.
We will miss her, we loved her, she is in our thoughts,
She is a woman we respected and admired a lot!
She always looked pretty, her hair was done nice,
When people saw her, they would look at her twice!
She always said, "Hi!",
When people walked by!
She had three sons, TJ, Quez and Joe,
We are so sad that she had to go.
She was a good mom and kind to everyone,
She told funny stories and jokes and was lots of fun!
She had a little store filled with candy,
She gave it lovingly to kids - that was dandy!
We kids saw her in the morning when we left for school,
She had a warm smile ... she was awesome and cool!
If she had a movie that kids wanted to see,
She'd lend it to kids to make them happy!
She was always giving compliments like, "You look nice today!"
We really loved Rasheena Davis in every way!
Even though she is no longer with us, she is still in our hearts,
She is number one on the wonderful "people chart!"
We will keep her in our thoughts and keep her in our prayers,
She will have a special place in our hearts ... always there!
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