Hi Kevin! I read your book & have been following your newsletter for a while. Your posts are graciously challenging to me - as I work at a Rescue Mission, and actively trying to not be a *typical* rescue mission that hurts more than it helps. Thank you for your work! It's helping me so much in my every day job.
Thank you Celia! If you’d be up for it, I’d love to chat more about this… as you can see it’s a focus area of mine right now. If you’re interested, shoot me an email? Kevin.m.nye(at)gmail(dot)com
Perfect message, Kevin. We've talked about Rescue Missions before and not all of them are bad. I definitely underatand how the underpinnings of the system seem not at all helpful and maybe even anti-way of Jesus.
That said, much of this message was heard by our guests. While I've not been there now for a few years and have heard it's leaning more towards what you describe...it was helpful and there was good fruit that changed people's lives.
All that to say, I hope you get to preach at a rescue mission.
I would say I have a very different perspective and approach on this than you do--which is fine.
The main thrust of our mission work was at a local-ish Salvation Army where we served food WHILE we preached. The place had indoor and outdoor seating so we would run two preachers. One for the inside, one for the outside. I usually worked the outside because for, whatever reason, that's where the more belligerent crowd aways wound up and belligerent people are my comfort zone.
I (and my crew) put a lot of effort into trying to get to know some of these folks as people. I would often finish early and eat with them, and we formed what could be called friendships with some of the clientele. But I also got body-checked on a regular basis, had chairs thrown at me, witnessed fights, was screamed at--that sort of thing.
If I were the sort of person deciding these things, I would absolutely recommend a young guy preach at the rescue mission--not because they only deserve 'newbies' and bad preachers, but because it is a marvelous training ground to deal with a wide variety of distractions and derailers. Since most rescue mission works focuses on 'gospel messages', it has a very different focus than 'church house preaching'.
I also think a guy bombing out in front of the church is marvelous training in its own way. I'm a little different than most.
Hi Kevin! I read your book & have been following your newsletter for a while. Your posts are graciously challenging to me - as I work at a Rescue Mission, and actively trying to not be a *typical* rescue mission that hurts more than it helps. Thank you for your work! It's helping me so much in my every day job.
Thank you Celia! If you’d be up for it, I’d love to chat more about this… as you can see it’s a focus area of mine right now. If you’re interested, shoot me an email? Kevin.m.nye(at)gmail(dot)com
Sounds like the perfect message to me ❤️
Perfect message, Kevin. We've talked about Rescue Missions before and not all of them are bad. I definitely underatand how the underpinnings of the system seem not at all helpful and maybe even anti-way of Jesus.
That said, much of this message was heard by our guests. While I've not been there now for a few years and have heard it's leaning more towards what you describe...it was helpful and there was good fruit that changed people's lives.
All that to say, I hope you get to preach at a rescue mission.
Nailed it!!! You could preach at my church any day. It would probably be the shortest and most honest sermon people have ever heard.
I would say I have a very different perspective and approach on this than you do--which is fine.
The main thrust of our mission work was at a local-ish Salvation Army where we served food WHILE we preached. The place had indoor and outdoor seating so we would run two preachers. One for the inside, one for the outside. I usually worked the outside because for, whatever reason, that's where the more belligerent crowd aways wound up and belligerent people are my comfort zone.
I (and my crew) put a lot of effort into trying to get to know some of these folks as people. I would often finish early and eat with them, and we formed what could be called friendships with some of the clientele. But I also got body-checked on a regular basis, had chairs thrown at me, witnessed fights, was screamed at--that sort of thing.
If I were the sort of person deciding these things, I would absolutely recommend a young guy preach at the rescue mission--not because they only deserve 'newbies' and bad preachers, but because it is a marvelous training ground to deal with a wide variety of distractions and derailers. Since most rescue mission works focuses on 'gospel messages', it has a very different focus than 'church house preaching'.
I also think a guy bombing out in front of the church is marvelous training in its own way. I'm a little different than most.