PIN has been around for 6 years and it seems like only…. nope it has seemed like a long time. It has really been cool watching PIN grow over the last 6 years. It is crazy how many lives have been touched and how much Virginia Beach has benefitted because of PIN. I’ve been thinking about all the cool things that have happened in the last 6 years. I want to share the one thing that has been the common link between all the cool things that have happened to PIN in the last 6 years…… God. When I look at all the cool things that have happened I know that it was done by God. The cool thing about watching God work is knowing that the creator of Heaven and Earth has our backs. So over the next couple weeks I will be showing some cool things that God has done through PIN.
First let’s start from the beginning, PIN started in June of 2002 when the Stamper family took 12 sandwiches to the oceanfront of Virginia Beach and served them to 5 people out of the back of our white Ford Explorer. Over the next 6 months PIN was serving 60 homeless people, still just the Stamper’s out of the back of our Explorer. So I knew we needed some help, so I went to the mission’s pastor of our church. He gave me a list of 10 families that might be interested in helping. Instead, of calling all of the names I thought I would pray about which name God wanted me to call, but I didn’t feel that any of the names on the list were the ones that God wanted me to call. After 3 days I decided to go ahead and call everyone on the list; however, before I called the first name I got a call from George Pillsbury who said he had been praying about starting a homeless ministry in Norfolk. He said instead of starting a homeless ministry in Norfolk he thought God wanted him to help me. George’s name wasn’t on the list that was given to me.
OK maybe you think that is a coincidence….. I guess it could be a coincidence….. Or maybe God at work? Once I finish this series I think that you will come to the same conclusion have come to…. God working through PIN BIG TIME!!!!!
PS: We still have that Ford Explorer and use it for PIN
