A Chaotic day Thursday 12th June

Hi everyone ,

Today was at best chaotic. Not aggressive chaotic people were not fighting, but none the less chaotic. Today things just kept occurring. One lady who needed attention all day that whom I know from the lodge, attended today because one of the regulars came across her and she had been punched in the eye. Her eye was black , sore and she was very drunk.

I managed to calm her and she spent the whole day with us. However she was hard to maange as she wanted to interrupt and sing and at other times just talk. After we finished I tried to walk her back to the lodge but she passed out across the road from Church. I then had to get someone to sit with her while I went back to Church and cleared up. I also had another guy stay for a shower at Church which I sometimes let him do. 

However  he took liberties and washed his clothes as well and  40 minutes later he was finished. During this time I  had to record some guitar playing for one of our regulars who needs it for a course she is doing. Then after he had finished his washing and left  I had to go see the lady passed out and somehow get her back to the lodge or get mission beat. Fortunately she had regained consciousness and I managed to pick her up and walk her back somehow to the lodge. Praise God for that.  

And I was able to pick the lady up and walk her to the lodge where she is safe and can sleep it off.

This was only the latter part of the day when Bible study had finished.

One guy I know well, left a little early today but I could tell he could not concentrate and was have trouble listening and understanding.

All in all  13 people came through our doors today. It was hard day to control everyone’s concentration with multiple interruptions and people arriving at different times today.

We even had a time after the study where people were just asking random questions from passages in the Bible. This in itself is good however they all wanted to ask at the one time and so kept interrupting. I had to constantly remind them of the one person at a time speaking rule. This just added to the chaos.

Please continue to pray for the group. If they do not need it I certainly do.

Thanks

Michael