The pastor stories are based on real life events experienced
by me pastor Dan, these are welled liked. I found it an easier way to express
myself, let me know if you enjoy them pastor@messiahsbranch.org
The
“pastor” the Wounded, and the Shofar…A typical day
The pastor was enjoying working in the kitchen of the
Mission church with his wife when he noticed when a young lady in her 20’s in the
kitchen door talking to his wife, the pastor, who is very hard of hearing, did
hear the words bandage and released from the hospital, so he moved closer to hear…
At this point his wife is saying “well my husband takes care of those things
so you will have to ask him”
The young lady looked mournfully at the pastor and said “My boyfriend was knifed last night
twice, in his back and his arm was sliced, do you have any large bandages as the
hospital did not send him out with any?”
In return the pastor says “wait till I finish serving food and I will have a look at him”
Thoughts about the night before when he and his was were being interviewed on a
supporters radio program as he had talked about how he does first aid for most
anything, bringing up the example of butterfly stitching a knife wound in a fellow’s
belly on the picnic table, that one was a real miracle as the fellow should have
went to the emergency room but for whatever reason he would not go, “figures” he thought “I have not did knife wounds in while,
bring it up and here’s one”
About that time he looked again over at the door as
a fellow who volunteers to do work around the place a lot is talking with his
wife, he heard hit in the head and needing fixed as it is gapping open…his wife
curious as most women “let me see”
she then recoils as the pastor once again says “let me get done”…
Wow and the day was almost over, wait it’s never
over is it…his thoughts and prayers are “ok
have I got what it takes to help them and surely they are walking so it cannot
be that bad”
After serving plates he goes over to the young couple
and sees that the other fellow is with them…Ok people know people..
At this point he gets the first look at the head
wounds, a large bump with a short cut in swelling on one side of his head, “ok” he thinks and prays “that’s easy an ice pack” someone had
donated one of those you break and it is instantly cool…
Then the fellow turns his head revealing a two or 2 ½
inch cut seeping blood on the other side of his head, one that a person should
go to the emergency room to get staples…“great”
the pastor thinks “this fellow never
wants to go there”
Taking the younger man first into the office the
other fellow tells him “I will see you in an hour” like it was going to take
awhile… “really” the pastor thinks
as he has not seen the wounds yet…
“Ok”
says the pastor “what happened?” the
young man explains, “ things happened so
I lost my apartment, I thought it could not happen to me twice but it did, the
last time I got hurt while on the street but it did the first day back. I asked
a young lady out in front of the drop in center (an agency that is a day
shelter 5 days a week, very dangerous place very) for a smoke she gave me one
and another man saw it, so he asked her for one, she said no last time I gave you
money to get me smokes you only brought me back a half pack. The man then got
very rude and started cussing the lady so I told him he should not talk to her that
way, when I did he pulled a knife and sliced my arm and stabbed me in the back”
Clearly by now the pastor knows this man is no drug addict or has an alcohol problem.
“the
emergency room stitched me up but last night after I was released, I saw____(the
other fellow) in trouble so when I went
to help him the knife wound in the back came open” the pastor thinks “ok that explains why they are together”
Looking the sliced arm with stitches is ok but the
deeper wound about 2 inches is oozing blood and wide open….looking around he had
spotted some butterfly stitches but eth box looked real old..Sure enough he puts them off and
they of course will not hold. “Ok great, I need supplies” he thinks as he uses
two band-aids to do the job of pulling eth wound together using the band-aids…
“This
one”
the pastor tells the young man “I do not
think will hold as my butterfly stitches are old you really need to go back to
the emergency room and have them fix or you can get into real trouble” to the
pastors surprise he and his girlfriend agree, so he will take them on the
mission bus a little later..relief the pastor feels as his spirit thanks HIS
FATHER…
Now on to the other fellow First he Gives him the
ice pack, then turns to the wound, “stitches I would think” the pastor
says “no they would be staples and I do
not think so” “I know, I know, so let me see” the pastor sighs..Once again
using band-Aids he closes the gaping wound..again thinking and praying “I need medical supplies”
After everyone has been fed and some driven back to the
north end of the city, the pastor finds that he is alone with his wife to clean
the Mission church by themselves, “wow 19 years of this and we are still doing
much of the work ourselves” Of course the children now grownups help when they
can come or sometimes volunteers….but no one has even did it very long other than
the children, in fact people will come to the mission church wanting to help,
so the pastor tells them “we have
clean-up and serving starting at 4PM till a round 6:30PM” many are never
seen again, I guess they must have wanted to walk around and preach at people….
While mopping the floor thinking, praying, he hears
what sounds like a shofar, first he figures it is an Elder coming back for
service but wait it’s not Friday? Over and over he hears it wondering who would
be blowing a Shofar in this part of town…
Dropping the mop he goes to the front door and sees
a young man sitting on eth bike holding a Shofar…
The young man says “I hope you do not mind me
blowing this” No of course not I just could not figure out who was doing it, I
have one I made myself” says the pastor..
The young man replies “I am doing it because America
is Babylon and you know when it says the believers are called out Wichita, is a
special place as it is in the center of the USA”
Starting to give some answers the pastor stopped what
then started to say then out came “Just whatever you are being led to say just
say it” the young man said that he has been ministering in the homeless community
for a couple of years and that he has been going all over the city as he is now
led to blow the shofar ..
That was a blessing the pastor thought heading back
in to mop, realizing he had never saw the young man before…going to the kitchen he tells his wife asking if she heard it and
she said no she had not…so a wonderful way to end a typical day…
Lift us in prayer, help if you can,
In His Perfect Peace, Pastor Dan
