Tuesday is our community day for the "Wolff Pack". (The "Wolff Pack" is the nick name for the five young adult Dwellers and the "Wolff Den" is our humble place of residence.) This means that none of us work on Tuesday and we spend the day immersed in different organizations and communities within Denver. We started our day at Bus Stop Ministries where we helped serve breakfast and then enjoyed some fellowship with those in attendance. We then scooted over to The Network to engage in a "ministry of fellowship". The Network is most easily described as a coffee shop for homeless people, but that doesn't really do it justice. It's a place for people to come hang out, engage in a Bible study and drink free coffee, tea, etc. It's a place to get out of the weather (if needed, so far Colorado weather is AWESOME!), have a seat in a safe (physically and emotionally) place and get some rest.
Our job was to talk to people. Hang out. Just be. You don't have to be around me very long to figure out that I like people. I can talk to most anyone and enjoy striking up a conversation. However, through all my years in church youth group, Mennonite education and service projects, I'd never served Jesus in such a simple and natural way. I didn't have to build a house, serve soup, sing songs or do anything special. I could just sit at a table, drink really bad coffee and talk. (As a side bar, it was really bad coffee. Combine cheap coffee, sitting on the burner a little too long in a pot that hasn't been really washed in a while and you get really bad coffee.) It was such a novel concept. I loved it! I heard stories of all sorts that day. Stories of life on the road, job searching, girl troubles and the problem with the Broncos. Some people want to talk about the situations and obstacles that consume them and cloud their entire life view, others want to forget about it for a while and just talk about football.
I hope to return to The Network. I could really go for some bad coffee. :)
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