Sunday,July 3 to Friday, July 15
These two weeks were mostly filled with Hope Street-Urban Compassion preparing for the Kids Activity day at Gymea Baptist.
Helen would pick me up at 745 and we would weave thru traffic into Woolloomooloo (Sydney) See map
Woolloomooloo is a dicotomy of rich and poor. Within blocks of each other you have the highest concentration of homeless people in Australia and the most expensive condos. I spent my days there helping Helen with the year end receipts on computer, mail merging and stuffing envelopes. I would also take time to go "down" to the Back Shed Cafe or the Art Space to see who was hanging out and talk to them. Then around 430 I would climb the hills up from Woolloomooloo to Kings Cross Station (quite a steep hill), and catch the train for about an hour back to Gymea (Where Julie lives).
I went in Tuesday July 5, Friday July 8, Wednesday July 13, Thursday July 14 and Friday July 15. I will blog in more detail about that.
Across the street from HopeStreet,
A local guy who feeds the cockatoos each morning
The desk I was at had a very fun and creative owner..
thanks Tim for sharing your space.
Yes, this stared at me as I worked for an urban mission
View walking down from Kings Cross Station
The city
Outside a tenement house
The station
Alley cut thru to the cafe
This square houses the most homeless in Australia,
and if you walk to the end of it you see Finger Bay Warf
where the rich and famous like Russell Crowe live.
....literally blocks from Hope Street.
Government housing
the train track over Woolloomooloo in the city
Tim, Helen and Beth at Hope Street Urban Compassion
Pray for Hope Street Urban Compassion with all the ministries they support. Pray for continued government and Baptist support, for financial and prayer partners and for the staff of Hope Street.
I also had meetings for the Kids Activity Day at Gymea Baptist Church.
While this week passed we also went to visit our Uncle Bruce, my Dads, sisters husband. He is one of our favorites. Sadly however the week prior he suffered a stroke, in his spine! And now he is paralysed from the waist down...odd huh? But Uncle Bruce is a "glass half full" kind of guy, I guess from running the Baptists here for years (ha ha). But he has a fantastic attitude, goes to Physical therapy every day to build up his core and upper body. Please pray for him, we are praying for a miracle. He has had a miracle healing before and his with us still for a reason! So we went North to the Northern Beaches to Forster to visit with him for two days.
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