Only at the Mission Centers of Houston

So this blog will seem extremely random but after a couple of unexpected events I felt I should blog and let everyone know what has been going on.

First of all, last week was great as usual. We have been able to provide more food for our community because we had a large donation. It could not have come at a better time.

Secondly, we have been celebrating Christ's resurrection this week. The kids always love holidays because we have pizza. It's a BIG deal!

Now moving along to the main portion of my blog.
Event #1
One of the other missionaries that live here takes college courses on Saturday. She went to get in her car to leave on Saturday, and the main exit was blocked completely. There were 7 cop cars because they had chased a man down and pinned him the ditch. She went to go get into one of the center's vehicle so that she could go out the other exit.....well, then an ambulance showed up and blocked it too. Eventually she had to go off-road a bit through a rather large mud hole (the ditch) and she was on her way.

Event #2
I had decided I would blog either today or tomorrow as of yesterday because not much had been going on so I didn't have much to say. So apparently that changed. Today during kids' club my director got a phone call from one of our volunteers who had driven by and saw that the window on the van I drive to work was down. So I grabbed my keys to go check. Not exactly good timing because we had 39 children in the gym, and we were starting to sit them down so we could pull out the tables (so we could serve the pizza). I was thinking to myself, "I never roll the window down, and my hair is down so I know I wouldn't have." :) I walked up to the car and sure enough the window was down. I checked to make sure it hadn't been busted in, and there was no glass. At this point I'm thinking, well maybe for some reason I did leave it down....I cranked the car and went to roll the window up and nothing happen. Tried again, up and down.....again nothing. After the kids left I had more time to look at it and after investigation we have come to the conclusion that someone "jacked" (stole) the window right out of the van. Sounds crazy but the window didn't fall down into the door.....I called my executive director and she laughed. Not much else you can do in this situation. :)

Event #3
This happened about 20 minutes ago. Four of us were sitting in the lounge watching a basketball game. All of a sudden we hear 5 loud pops. Not wanting to jump to conclusions we said, "ah, it sounded like fireworks." Then the other missionary who could get out of the exit on Saturday came in and said, "Did you guys hear the 5 shots?" Turns out, there was a drive by.... Then, a friend and I remembered seeing a guy run into the house across the street. You don't really walk around here at night, so it wasn't really out of the ordinary. Well, that's the house the shots were fired at because the truck the shooter was in drove back by after firing the shots.

All this to say, only at the Mission Centers of Houston.

What can we possibly do in an area like this? Share Christ and watch him transform people's lives!


* As for the question about the roof. A roofer volunteered his time and resources this past week and repaired our roof. We'll see if it worked the next time it rains.

Thanks again to all of you who follow the blog.