Nov 17th, 2009

“The King will

reply, ‘Whatever
you did for one of
the least of these
brothers of mine,
you did for me.’”

Jim, Melissa, Briana, (Matt 25:40 NIV)

Jocelyn & Isaac URBAN MISSIONS REPORT

OUR CALL OPERATIONS

We are inner-city The bus team begins at

missionaries to the 7:30a.m. by cooking a
poor, addicted, and vegetable-rice soup, and
abused in New York the hot cocoa in the win-
City and New Jer- ter or lemonade in the
sey. summer. The team also
stops by two bakery’s to
We work at NYCR— pick up bread and stock
The Relief Bus, by the bus for the day.
connecting those
on the street such
as drug addicts, As The Bus pulls into
the homeless, “that day’s” location, the
prostitutes, victims team opens the windows
of injustice and on the side of the bus and
abuse, struggling starts serving food to
families, and others people on the sidewalk.
to help and hope.

We believe in Then, the team hangs out

sharing God’s love with the people eating and
to the unchurched through conversation,
Emilio Razo (center of pic) has been struggling with alcohol-
through meeting identifies their immediate
ism. He is here from Mexico, his wife has been cheating on
their practical needs, prays, connects
him, and as you can imagine, he has been very depressed. He
needs and them to resources for
wants help and is willing to do what it takes to get free.
friendship help, and the opportunity
evangelism! for them to receive the
He has a Jehovah Witness background, but we talked to him
love of God and
about Jesus and the freedom he will bring to his life if he lets
to surrender to Him.
Him. Nef (left side of pic) was translating for me, and we have
CONTACT connected him with Anchor House, a Christian's men's rehab
in Brooklyn. We prayed for Emilio and sent him on his way.
Jim & Melissa Berry
36A Parkway Village
Cranford, NJ 07016 Emilio arrived at Anchor House, but he is now being referred
(908)276-0760 to Victory Outreach in Brooklyn for recovery, please pray for a
jim@nycr.org good Christian Spanish connection and that Emilio finds the
help he needs. He is a poor wanderer, in need of God's grace.
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Melissa ministers to a
mother who regularly Nov. 5th, Melissa met Raphael at
stops by The Relief Tremont Park. He wanted help, but
Bus. She has six chil- he was afraid to trust people
dren. Melissa was because he's been take advantage of
able to find clothes in the past. He's from Puerto Rico.
for her children He's been here for 2 years, home-
through donations we less, and sleeps from bench to
received. Pray for her bench. At the time, she was just able
and her family as we to pray for him and gave him some
continue to minister bread, bananas and hygiene
God's love to her. products.

The next Thursday, on Nov. 12th,

Melissa ministers to a homeless man. She
sat down next to him while he was eating
soup on a park bench. She was unable to
remember his name, but he's been home-
less for 2 years. She was able to pray for
him and give him info for the Queen of
Peace shelter. Pray for more opportunity
to know him and share Jesus with him.
Juan Ascencia (center), Melissa was with a team taking soup
has been having family and hot chocolate out on trays to
issues, feelings of people, and she saw Raphael again
loneliness, depression, in front a store with a group of peo-
which has lead to ple. He said, "Can you help me?" "I
alcoholism. The moment have no family, I'm lonely." The team
we met him, he was so brought Raphael back to the bus to
broken, afraid, and des- get some clothes. We gave him info
perate for love and for for shelter, but he's still hesitate to
help. get help, though he wants help.
Please pray for Raphael to find free-
We shared the Gospel of dom from fear and ultimately give his
Jesus Christ with him, heart to God.
and he made a decision
for Christ! He also had a
very strong desire to get
connected to a local
church, so we con-
nected him to Pastor
Sam at Christ Love Min-
istries, just a few blocks
away from our location.
Please pray for Juan's
walk in Christ and that
he can be effectively
discipled at the church.

With God, your prayers and support continually make a difference in reaching out to those in
need of God’s message of love and grace. Thank you for your support!

Sincerely,

Jim & Melissa