{"id":27905,"date":"2024-05-17T08:51:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T13:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=27905"},"modified":"2024-05-17T08:51:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T13:51:12","slug":"friday-update-283","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/17\/friday-update-283\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WordPress ate half my post yesterday. If it seemed like it ended abruptly, that\u2019s why. Between that and the library closing 20 minutes after opening, things just weren\u2019t going my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 4 (final day) recap of the \u201cgood old-fashioned revival\u201d at the Union Mission:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were. no additional believer\u2019s baptisms. The preachers had said they\u2019d be thrilled if last night\u2019s service was nothing but baptisms, so that may have been a bit of a disappointment for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A number of religious leaders from around the city who guest-preach at the Mission one day a month were lthere. Brother Ronnie Johnson from a church out in Nutbush gave the opening prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A traveling group from the Korean Baptist Church came in and gave a video presentation. Seoul is the home of the largest Baptist, Presbyterian, and Methodist churches in the world. Koreans are grateful to America for saving their church in the 1950-1953 war. Now they want to repay the favor by helping restore American churches to greatness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the Koreans were in jeans, but a few wore traditional religious clothing. They did a song- and-dance performance with colorful props.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atlanta preacher – whose name is Chris McDaniel- led us through about 6 songs on his keyboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then David (Ford? Fort? Something like that) from Buckeye, AZ got up to preach. He\u2019s much more of a fire-and-brimstone guy, preaching about JEEEEEsus, than Chris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one point David asked us to turn to the person next to us and pray for them. The \u201cInteract with a stranger\u201d thing is one of the things I hate about church. Especially in a homeless shelter. Fortunately my seat neighbors weren\u2019t feeling it either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davjd called all the religious leaders in the room to the front, then told us if we need JEEEEEsus in our life, to come up and talk to one of them. About 30 people came up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that was it. No mass-saving like we had Tuesday. The service still went 45 minutes over. Most in the audience didn\u2019t seem to mind but I did hear some complaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On to the news\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sam\u2019s Hamburgers at 7 N. Main had added a new side business: Humble Drip, serving coffee, tea, and pastries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n