We served a meal in City Hall Park and Occidental Park on Tuesday with the youth group, service corps team, some people from Seattle Temple and streetlevel's regulars. All told, that was 16 people serving 140 or so meals and spending time sharing God's love with His friends.

The enemy showed up. I don't think he liked what was happening. Two of the young people were singled out and received persecution. I've been thinking about this all week. It was their first time doing ministry with the homeless and they were cursed and degraded for it. When we in the Church in America read Jesus' words, "they will hate you because they hate me" we sort of have to skip over them. There are many who spent their whole lives in the church and have never put themselves in a position to be hated by the world. They can't share Jesus' experience. These 16-year-olds can. There is beauty in that because it is closer to Jesus. God is pro at redemption.