I want you to know that you are my HERO. Your compassion for others is a breath of fresh air. We live in a country where I feel like we sometimes forget about home but its people like you who always remember the people under the bridge who other people have given up on. This will be my 4th year volunteering with Operation Care and I always enjoy participating.

 

I started in 2006 at a time when I had just been laid off from my job in November. When I tell you that I thought I was at rock bottom until I stepped into that convention center that morning. I realized that there was a whole other bottom; one I had never encountered before. 

As I washed feet I began to praise and thank God for His faithfulness because He'd been keeping me and I felt like he’d forsaken me. On that day, I believed I shouted and praised God more than I worked. My heart was just overwhelmed with joy and gratefulness. To be able to help someone and clean someone's feet and bless them with new socks, shoes, and a word of prayer was more than a blessing for me, it was a humbleness my mind and my spirit needed. I understood then that it's not about me, but it's about Jesus! 

 

God invites us each and every day to join Him in his work and scriptures say true worship includes loosing the bonds of injustice and offering food to the hungry and that we must see Jesus in the face of the homeless. I did, I saw Jesus that day, walking about rejoicing at the work that was being done.

 

James 2: 15-16 says “Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?”

 

Ending poverty and homelessness takes action and cannot be done by confession alone.” You Susie are the epitome of righteousness. I love you and have so much respect for you.

 

Thank you for allowing me to be a part of it,

 

Karissa M. Robinson