by Joe Christian

Created on: July 23, 2008

My Agenda!

I have an agenda and some people think that I am so very evil, but I am here in this city that I refer to as "Dark City", which if you ever saw that film, you might know why I refer to this city by that 'nick name'? Or maybe you won't?

But under my name and as "The City Homeless" on my new business cards I have expressed to all that I reach out to build a new ministry team, my personal goal is to feed, clothe and house the homeless that I have met downtown living under a bridge; and we have a moral code for those we help and rescue: NO DRUGS! NO FORNICATING! NO DRUNKENNESS! How can a social ministry help any person still do what ruined them?

And it is all under the "Living Word Fathers" who preach and minister the Word of God.
Unlike some now-a-days, some of us still think that the Bible is a good book to preach, read and teach! Ever read "Eternity in Their Hearts"? It tells of a special cosmic Book!

I have had ministry teams and done this kind of social ministry since before 1987, and now since overcoming and surviving being fed Antifreeze by drug thugs, and now living in a city that is NOT San Francisco, my home town and that I am so homesick for, I meet others in need and realize that though there are so many downtown social ministries, I see another way to meet desperate persons needs in another tailored way than they do... good ministries all of them, but I want to minister to these people that are under a particular bridge and certain kind of group of homeless that I just feel drawn to and want to help and rescue and house, clothe and feed! Is that idea really so evil and some think/say?

Some here at Gather say that my verbiage is all "blah, blah, blah!" though, as well as that I am not "Father St. John of the Cross" but "Father Nutjob!" and that I am a "bigotted monster" and so on! And I think those are the ones that might have their own 'agendas' and like to destroy others' hopes, goals and dreams? Or maybe they are only 'transferring' their own, old traumas and personal experiences onto me possibly... when I am not at all the kind of horrible person that they think that I am, but refuse to give space to learn that?
Personal Psychological Prejudices are a hard thing to overcome! But therapy may help?

And I still have my agenda that is noble and good that I am following and wanting to tell others about even though I have been slammed and slandered and lied about for it!

The Evangelical Jewish Prophet of old Isaiah by name, said that "A good man has [only] noble intentions [goals]", and a friend of mine in San Francisco who was a retired Social Worker and elderly said that she wished that she had a magic wand to wave and make everyone's problems go away, so thinking that was a good name of a social ministry, we founded "WAND", World Association for Noble Directions in the 90's and had our own office suite on the edge of Pacific Heights helping Eastern European orphanages and doing AIDS/HIV counseling, and etc!

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