Welcome to the Hood'!

It's been a while since I posted, I do apologize for that. Things have been a bit busy these days. We are busy trying to get things lined up for the partnership between OKC First Nazarene and Penn Avenue Nazarene and its been fun, but busy. Thought I would share an event that happened the other day in our lives:

Amy took a lady home to her apartment from the church. Her place is probably three or four blocks away from our church. Right down the street. Amy was stopped at an intersection getting ready to turn right down the street where the apartment complex was and heard what sounded like gun shots. She said they went off real fast, like a semi-auto or something. She looked to her right and saw to guys, probably 16-18 years old, shooting at a truck with two guys inside that was only about 20 feet away from her. They shot six or eight times, the truck peeled out and drove off. The boys ran down into the alley. It all happened so fast. She handled herself well, but the lady with her did not. Apparently she freaked out, began screaming and they came back to the church where I was and relayed the story. Needless to say, we were all a bit shaken up. Pastor said he had never seen anything like this in the eleven years he has been at Penn Ave. He has heard shots before, but never seen the actually shooting take place. Please remember us in your prayers as we serve in a mission field. It's complete with everything!