Hesed House

Today we served at Hesed House, a homeless shelter that offers opportunities to those in need with services for medical, legal, food and sleeping. When we first arrived we met with Barb, Jared's contact. Barb was very busy with a 18 year old girl, who is pregnant, that was just dropped off at the shelter by her dad this morning, with a few sacks of her clothes. She was given only 40 minutes to get out with her stuff and into the shelter. While Barb was taking care of things, she put Miss Pat in charge of us. Miss Pat took us on a tour of the facility and gave an extended informational overview of the shelter and homelessness in general.

A side not on Miss Pat; Miss Pat is in charge on many aspects of Hesed House. She is a boss, mother, and friend to all of the clients and staff at the shelter. She is an amazing woman. We were very fortunate to spend time with her today. I am also looking forward to exchanging recipes and gumbo! I can't say enough about Miss Pat and how inspirational she was to the group. We had an hour long discussion on the day upon our return to Dani's house. I think her words to the group challenged and informed everyone of things we didn't know or have chosen to ignore. She made everything very clear for us and inspired us to do more for God and our communities. I was happy to hear that worshiping with us for God was revitalizing for her. Thank you so much Miss Pat, we enjoyed every minute of our time at Hesed.

Our concert today did not end up the way we though it would. Hesed is in need of more room for their work, so space is limited. We could not find a good place to fit all the equipment and since it was a wonderful day (at 9am). We decided, that we would hold our concert outside at 2pm. God had some other plans for us. Once we started unloading the truck it started to sprinkle. We took the necessary measures to protect the equipment and decided to play on. We continued the whole concert in the rain, it was great! The rain was very soothing, it was not a downpour, but nice and refreshing. We made sure to dry off all the equipment, in fact, much of it is sitting around Dani's still drying. I ended up running sound from underneath a tarp, definitely a new one for me. This ended up being really interesting, as all I could hear was the rustling of the tarp and it was too bright to see the screen on the board. I had to pretty much run the sound from underneath the board platform so I could sort of hear the band, moving sliders by memory!

We had a great time playing in the rain for the people at Hesed. I hope everyone was inspired by God's work through worship, music, and rain.

For dinner, we went to a Chicago style pizzeria, with huge deep dish slices of pizza that are amazing. We are now all back and heading to bed to be up at 5am for a 6am load-out. I am going to go get some sleep.
God Bless,
-Hans

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