alexisfoster - A little ATL

I thought I'd write a quick blog since I have a couple of minutes. This weekend/ week is a bit crazy because we have 400 extra high school students at the base for a leadership four day retreat so our schedule is all changed around. Today, instead of doing ministry in the afternoon, we did it all day. In the morning my usual group and I went and picked up our friend Sweetness and took her to the Shell Festival which is just a flea market that is in JBay for the weekend. Sweetness and I got matching scarves. In the afternoon we split up at took some new people along with us. Mary, Lane, Bee, and I and we went to Ocean View which is the part of the township with little government housing and mostly just shacks. We ended up talking to a few ladies that were sitting outside their house with their kids and I recognized one of the ladies from church the day before. She invited us into her home and didn't waste any time. She told us that she went to get tested today and found out that she is positive, she has HIV. Then she went on to tell us that she is two months pregnant and she hasn't told her boyfriend yet and doesn't plan on telling her friends. People don't talk about having HIV. Everyone has it. No one talks about it. If word gets out that she has HIV she'll probably lose a lot of friends. The craziest thing though was that yesterday was her first time going to church in years and the pastor talked about how as Christians we go through so much crap and it's hard to believe that God still loves us, it's hard to believe that He is faithful. The main point of the message was to hold on even when we feel like God is so far away. She hears that message and the next day she finds out that she has HIV, and we randomly show up at her door and pray with her. God is crazy.

That is only what happened in our group. God did amazing things today. Sorry this is so short and choppy, I just had a few minutes. God Bless.

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