This past Friday I was able to help facilitate a day long experience for a group of high school studens from the Dublin area. After an hour and a half orientation including teaching on prayers from Scripture, we took them out for a walk through San Francisco in groups of 4 or 5. We encountered the Mission, the Castro, Market Street and the Tenderloin. The students encountered things they had never seen before and thought about things they had never thought about before. Hopefully, the experience will help all of us to learn to walk in the ways of the Kingdom, to follow Jesus as we encounter new situations and people in every day of our lives.
My particular group was able to sit down with Phil of the legendary Philz Coffee and chat about the poems we were writing as we sought to express our feelings about the city. We also took our new friend George out to lunch. George has lived in San Francisco on the streets for over 30 years and had some stories to tell over lunch. It was a beautiful day, and I was particularly proud of the teenagers for seeing the beauty of the day in the midst of cold and rainy weather.
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