THE PULSE
Compiled by Adam Miller
Ideas, insights, inspiration for you and your church
THE WAY I SEE IT
By Christa Bosenberg
I
saw a lot of things I’ve never seen before. A homeless woman bathing her face and arms in a spigot. A man digging through a dumpster for something to salvage.
Christa Bosenberg served as a NAMB summer missionary at the Mission Centers of Houston, Texas. This is what she saw.
I saw shoes slung over power lines meaning a crack
house was nearby.
I saw kids, both dirty kids and clean kids, starving
for love, wanting to be touched, needing to be noticed. I saw a woman take pieces of clothing I’d laughed at thinking, “who would wear that?” I saw God’s
faithfulness as our clothing closet dwindled to nothing, then grew again with donations at our door. I saw guard dogs at almost every house and bars on almost every door and window, a man with a box of cash run across the street with a gun in his hand, the joy on the face of a 9-year-old girl after I taught her how to jump rope backwards, and the true gratitude on a woman’s face as I placed food in her hands. I saw God’s heart for the people we often
don’t see—the untouchables—and how the Baptist Mission Centers meet every need they possibly can, the most important being the spiritual need for the daily strength and hope that these people can only fi nd in Jesus. This summer, I saw my expectations of missions
blown out of the water. I saw what Jesus would be doing if He lived down here with us today. I saw that a few weeks out of my summer can change lives and the way I see the world.
32 Summer 2010 •
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