"What really struck me was what a great need there was to go out and talk to people about the Lord."

 

"I really dislike school. I want you to know that. I hate all this silliness. I mean, think about it for a minute. The bells, the grades, the uniforms, homework. Really?"

 

If you read the four Gospels and pay attention to the sequence of events during the week of Jesus’ crucifixion, you may spot a puzzle.

 

It’s 7:00 a.m. and Ben Reinhardt hears someone yelling and pounding on the front door of his house on Dove Street in Shreveport’s Allendale/Lakeside neighborhood.

 

Although the Lord had made it clear to me that he was going to provide the additional space we needed, I never imagined I would be able to live across the street from where I grew up, in a house my father built.

 

This Christmas season Servant Branch members drove 2,640 miles to 23 different towns, many of them hundreds of miles from the Twin Cities, delivering Christmas gifts to the children of prisoners.