Serving God By Serving Others! Skid Row

(Passing out Bibles during the street serve.)

(George with multiple members of the IOWAY team.)

Today, we worked at Skid Row, also known as the Projects.  We had a street church service, served lunch, and distributed clothes.  We met many interesting people with many unique situations.  One incredible story was from a man named George who is Sudanese. Sudan is a rough country that has been in a religious civil war for many years. The northern half believes that there should only be a Muslim religion and has been fighting with the southern Christian half. When he was four, he watched as his mother, father, and uncle were killed for believing in God by the Muslim military. He and most of the other children ran into the bush to survive and they stuck together for the next nine years, but many of the other children were killed by animals such as lions in the wilderness.

By thirteen, he was traveling from country to country by himself. At seventeen, the United States paid for him to come to our country and he was adopted by a family in Philadelphia. He attended a community college in Delaware and moved to Australia in 2006 and stayed there until 2007. There George joined the Salvation Army and the community sent him to Los Angeles because he did not want to return to Pennsylvania. He is now located in the Salvation Army community in L.A. and has been there for three years. He plans on returning to Sudan in the future and starting a church. When asked if he has any fear of returning, he replied, “Why fear death? This is just flesh. No one is alive without the Lord.”