Glory in NYC!

I was blessed to be a part of a 30 person three night, intense, whirlwind trip with very little sleep and a whole lot of sharing God's love through meeting tangible needs for the homeless and providing a day of pampering and gifts for a large New York City shelter. Along with a dozen other churches we lavished the women at a number of shelters throughout the city with manicures, pedicures, haircuts, make up, massages and very nice free clothes and accessories. Looking back, it was really amazing how God orchestrated all of the items that were needed, funds that were needed for people's trips and each individual that came - many, many God stories.

We weren't able to take a lot of pictures at the shelter that we served in due to confidentiality, so most of the pictures below are of our team and our day of tourist fun the day before we left. Highlights:

1. Meeting a homeless veteran and singing him happy birthday. My heart broke for him and for all that he didn't have even after protecting our country. He is 32 - my age.

2. Hearing from the shelter coordinator that our simple gifts of love brought such peace to the shelter when normally there is a lot of turmoil and fighting between residents.

3. Experiencing all of this with some of my closest friends and being able to see one of my favorite people from college who lives in New York City, Faith. What a treat!