Rochester Homeless Experience

Hey all, so this pat week me and Matt went in to the city (Rochester) to hang out with the homeless people that live there. We took my video camera in hopes of getting some interviews. It was cold that day and rained the whole time we were there...a perfect day to brighten someone's day, right? So we walked around for a while until we saw someone who looked homeless. We were about to talk to them when I turned to Matt and said, "Wait...what are we going to say to them?" We kinda forgot about the whole initiating conversation thing...whoops. So we decided that we would but some coffee and offer it to anyone who looked like they could use a hot drink. Well, after we walked out of the diner where we got the coffee there was no one in sight...no one homeless at least. So we started to walk down the street to find people. We walked about a block until we passed two guys who were making a drug deal, one of them being homeless...we decided to keep walking. After walking about 10 blocks and me peeing in a parking lot, we found a group of guys waiting outside of a homeless shelter. Perfect! So me and Matt asked them is they wanted some coffee, they jumped at the offer. We started talking to two guys, men named Alan and Steve. I concentrated on Steve and we ended up talking for the whole time. Steve is retired from the military. He fought in the first Gulf War. Almost everything he talked about referred back to being in the ARMY. He seemed to be very enthusiastic in everything he talked about. He was a great story teller who had a talent for embellishing most everything he said. He talked about how he is actively involved in the ARMY and still trains and things like that. I think that was a little far from the truth, it was good to talk to him thought because he seemed as though not many of the other men would talk to him. Matt, on the other hand, was able to interview Alan and get some good stuff from him. Unfortunately my video camera broke and I cant view any of the videos on it anymore. So we'll have to wait awhile until we can retrieve that material. Besides that I think the day went really well and we seemed to have a positive impact on the men we talked to. They said right before we left that they were looking forward to us coming back soon, and hopefully we can.

A wretched sinner saved by grace,
Jordan