In the midst of our distress, God looked down and saw how humanity wandered like lost sheep without a shepherd. He came in the flesh and walked with us. He felt the pain of human existence,-rejection, disappointment, hunger, weariness, torture. The Easter story reminds us of His great sacrifice culminated in our eternal good.
Brenham is like the rest of the world, a place with real hurt. In the housing projects many moms are afraid to send their children outside to play, little girls are abused by rarely seen uncles, sisters murdered brothers, laziness, drunkenness, lonely young ladies looking for love in uncaring arms, generational poverty, generational crime, and generational abuse.
It is our inclination to move towards comfort, which inevitably moves us away from those whose lives are filled with hurt, violence, abuse, depression, hopelessness, and frustration. In this matter we must make a conscious effort to move towards the need, like a fireman who runs into a burning building. We must slip on the sandals of Christ and walk where our feet don’t always want to take us. Not to just care for others from a distance but have compassion (which comes from the Latin “to suffer with”).
Relocation is an important part of our community development plan. Living and working in or nearby the housing projects has always been our goal. Chris Gaines (youth) lives in the Gayhill projects and Lauren Hall (youth girls) is moving into the Clayton projects. Marcus Lawhon (director/pastor) and family will be building a home within a year directly across from “The West” projects on Burleson St.
Mission Brenham is set in May to purchase five acres next to the Clayton housing projects. This will be another base of operations as we reach out to our low-income neighbors through tutoring, job training, chronological bible storying, Bible studies, summer camps, computer training…sharing our lives together.
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