HCLM BLOG

Normally this would happen while I sat in the driver seat of my car, but not today. This policeman started as a night patrolman and now is the community relations officer. He's a good guy, and he's done a lot to build a bridge between the churches and the "protect and serve" folks of our fine city. We worked with him a couple months ago on a school supply drive, Helping Hands Holy Cross L Team is working with him to refurbish a house right now, he's doing a lot of good. It's fun to see churches partner with the city to make things better. 

So the talk today was in our courtyard and centered around a Christmas project we're going to help him with. But in the course of that conversation our motivation for helping folks came up. It was fun to stand in our courtyard, watch preschoolers walk by and share with a police officer the model I've learned from Jesus. He walked into cities and healed people, fed people, and cast out demons without any strings attached. There was not requirement of a sermon or gospel presentation coupled with service, he answered questions when they had them but often came with one motive: love and serve. I'm trying to love and serve without any other strings attached and lead folks to do the same. It was fun to get to talk with somebody about that today.