The harvest is plentiful but...

Saturday evening in ASDA - rows of short fuses!

There's so many people who we are in contact with who need REAL friends. It is such a big requirement - they need somebody to come and visit them in the evening, when there's the temptation to have a drink - it's a daily requirement. Without GOOD friends (and you know what I mean by good) they become influenced for evil - to neglect or hurt their children; their neighbour; their environment. I know of many such cases that need a real friend, but friendships take time to develop, and they are a heavy burden on families. Our church has a small core group most of whom are families. The singles among us work incredibly hard at loving their neighbour - going the extra mile in the evening or on a weekend - tensions run high. But how does a father of two young children go to a contact in the evening when his wife has come home from work tired and now has to deal with, bath, the children? These contacts, as I say, need friends who can come 3 out of 5 days in a week, to help them as they cook dinner, to chat to them about seemingly unimportant things, to be a friend, to laugh, to cry, to share in life. The city is a difficult place to live, the concrete jungle - this island has so many competing forces, so many wicked spirits. Please PRAY - pray to the Lord of the harvest.