Acts of Love

Jim Moynihan – One Church

I met Steve Edwards at a community gathering in the Buckroe area of Hampton, Virginia last summer. We share a heart for the city and a passion to see Jesusʼ Church actively involved in transforming the city for the better.

Since then we have developed a close friendship as we have served together in various ways to impact our communities for Jesus. One of these ways is Steveʼs wife Deniseʼs free lunch to the homeless ministry she leads three days a week. She and her helpers prepare bag lunches that they distribute at two parking lots in downtown Hampton on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. They are distributing about 200 lunches each day.

This photograph was taken on Christmas Day, 2010. I am helping this little guy put his orange into his pocket. We distributed many lunches as well as coats, sweaters, hats and gloves.

Most of those we served are either homeless or live in a low- income housing project across the street form this parking lot.

As we get to know these folks better we hope to invite them to learn about ABCD and to lead them to develop transformational efforts in their neighborhood.

Steve and Denise have developed close relationships with those they serve and with members of the community they have met along the way.

They have been slowly getting to know the management of the low-income housing development and are discussing ways to help them help themselves.

Steve and Denise believe in the ABCD process and are helping me to get the word out to our local churches and communities. We are working together to share this concept with the apartment managers in the hopes of conducting listening sessions soon.