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Jul 2·edited Jul 2Liked by S Tomlinson

I'm the worst. I was in an Independent Fundamental Baptist church for 20 years. I nearly lost my faith there. I wore skirts and dresses for 20 years. We recently started supporting a really tiny local church after attending a large church (1,000+) for 16 years that was pretty informal in dress codes. At the tiny church, the mostly elderly congregation dresses up. I show up in ripped jeans and t-shirts. I may have to dress up a little for them. But for me, I meet Jesus on the street. When other Christian groups hand out snacks and drinks, I circle their group, handing out smokes as they make a circle and join hands for prayer. I pick off the ones standing outside the circle. I sit on curbs with street workers and drive dealers around. Those are my best opportunities for spiritual conversation. I imagine the threadbare, filthy throngs that Jesus walked through. The destitute, sick, infirm, mentally ill. They need to be able to approach us. They need to see Jesus.

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Wow! Just wow! You’re in the places that Jesus needs to be shared. I am holding you up and praying for your life ministry sister ❤️❤️❤️

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Thank you. My daughter has been on the street as an addict for 2 years. Spending time with her turned into ministry. It was all God ❤️

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Well you certainly inspire me with your call ❤️

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Jul 2Liked by S Tomlinson

This so amazingly beautiful and right in line with our mission of planting the seeds … they land everywhere but you are planting the seeds off the worn path and new path and in a receptive way. God Bless you sister.

Retirement is here and don’t always have physical mobility so looking to forge my own missionary… maybe in leggin… in any season but summer and early fall. Gets hot in Florida. Love to you all.

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Where in fl?

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I was in a class at church last night & I was talking about exactly this subject of getting out of the bubble of comfort.

The people at the table who don’t know me just looked at me like they’d never heard of such a thing.

I have lived through a wild ride in this lifetime… if one cannot find me, it is often because I stopped to get gas in an area many don’t go & I ran across someone who just needed to talk, or feel seen or just hear that they have a purpose here and they are loved. God sends me there and He leads people into my path or me into theirs. What a beautiful thing it is to share this life with those who society deems useless & hopeless or with a woman who looks like she has it all together but I can feel she is about to fall off the edge and I ask how she is AND wait for an answer… only to find out she wants to give up. Or the old man at the health store greeting customers who’s planning on going home and getting high because he can’t live with his past.

Each of these souls are children of God, waiting for their prayers to be answered, even when they don’t realize they were even heard. Thinking no one will ever see them.

I’m grateful for all I have been through, for it leads to me to see. It leads me to hear and it leads me to love.

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Jul 2Liked by S Tomlinson

the inner beauty of the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality and unfading charm of a gentle

and peaceful spirit, one that is calm and self controlled, not over anxious, but serene and spiritually mature, which is very precious in the sight of

God.’ 1 Peter 3:3-4

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Jul 3Liked by S Tomlinson

One of my fav verse when I’m feeling alone and exacerbated ! 🙏🏻🥰

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‘Man looks upon the outward appearance, but the LORD looks

into the heart.’

1 Samuel 16:7

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Your adornment must not be merely external - with interweaving and elaborate knotting of the hair, and wearing gold jewelry or being superficially preoccupied with dressing in expensive clothes; but let it be

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