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April 30, 2015. God N' Dogs. Our humble attempt to change the world.

 

Last week (April 30) was a crazy week on the streets! The craziness that happened last week had to do with some irate folks but everything was handled without incident. Thank you to WPD for their assistance.

Things have been growing with our little hot dog tailgate party. When we started out again we were serving about 30-40 people a week, somewhere between 60-80 hotdogs total on the nights. Last Thursday, we served 250 hotdogs and had contact with around 100-125 people. The financial burden of this has obviously grown, but we have had new volunteers come out and help share the load. We have also had a few anonymous donations come from seemingly nowhere to help out! Thank you to all who have donated both time and money!   

Darrin Summers, from Sharon Springs KS, came and spent the evening with us. He was in town to line up things for the youth group service weekend in June. We will be doing some work with Inner Faith Ministries as well as doing our normal hotdog tailgate and then a special Saturday event with sloppy joes! Also, a big thank you has to go to First United Methodist Church and Leslie Coates for truly showing us what it means to be doing Kingdom work. They are opening up their doors to Darrin and his group for them to stay there at the church and save money on hotel fees! It is so huge, and the money saved will go to helping out those less fortunate than us. Our partnership with First UMC has been very uplifting and encouraging for me to be a part of and has helped show me that sometimes we can work within the systems of some establishments.

I know my posts have been sporadic at best, I hope to dedicate some more time and effort to these posts. It is great self reflection for me and helps me keep a certain ethos about my time out on the streets of Wichita.

I am looking forward to going out on the streets tonight! Prayers, volunteers, and donations are always welcome! Every Thursday evening at 6:30 on the corner of 3rd and Topeka.