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04-22-2009, 03:33 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Clackamas, OR
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City in need
So as you all know I changed jobs and with that I get to ride Trimet every day to and from work. The last few weeks I have been getting off at midnight and riding the bus to 82nd and Powell where I have to wait for the next bus 20 minutes. Now I love riding the bus over the past month and a half at the new job I have really had a burden to pray for the people on the bus and the streets. Some people you can just see the pain and hurt on there face. You know all my life I have lived in areas with rough neighborhoods but I have not sat down until recently and just prayed for the people. Now it is not in my nature to approach some homeless man and ask him if I can pray for him or to go out and preach on the bus. But I feel that this city needs people praying for it.
Sorry if I am kind of rambling on but it has been on my heart the last few weeks the most maybe cause as I was driving past in the car you really cant look into the face of the city and see the hurt. So please pray for the people of Portland this city could really use it. Thanks rp
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04-22-2009, 08:12 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Yamhill County, OR
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Re: City in need
It's not just Portland, Ryan. I totally understand what you are saying. Makes going off to Africa or Haiti again seem really pointless when there are so many hurting, hungry people right where we live.
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04-23-2009, 07:54 AM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Hillsboro, Fomerly Roseburg
Posts: 1,213
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Re: City in need
For years I helped run a program teaching police officers about drug influence recognition. As part of the program we would spend 2 weeks in downtown getting drug impaired subjects off the street to volunteer to perform some physical tests and determine the drug causing any impairment. The students are then "certified" based upon their ability to name the drug category causing the impairment and have it confirmed with a voluntary urine sample. It amazed me how strongly these people opposed drug use and were willing to help us keep someone else from going down that road.
The point to this is that I regularly worked with the "down but not out" crowd that frequents downtown. I learned very quickly what a thin line there is between "us" and "them". In fact it is all just us.
One person volunteered to come back every day for one week if we would just go to a shelter and get a blanket for them. I got two blankets and that person was there everyday as promised.
Each year as I travelled home from the training I would reevaluate the stressors in my life and just be thankful I have 4 walls to come home to.
Ryan if it is in your heart to pay attention to people in need, keep watching and you will find your opportunity to help.
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04-23-2009, 09:04 AM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 392
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Re: City in need
Ryan.
Just let me say that it is rare for a person to truly feel pain for others. I see a lot honesty in what you say and i respect your willingness talk about your feelings in such an honest way.
Thank you.
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04-28-2009, 07:15 PM
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Chromer
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Newberg Or
Posts: 715
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Re: City in need
Pretty cool man!
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04-30-2009, 07:38 AM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: s.w. Wa
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Re: City in need
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan Pultz
So as you all know I changed jobs and with that I get to ride Trimet every day to and from work. The last few weeks I have been getting off at midnight and riding the bus to 82nd and Powell where I have to wait for the next bus 20 minutes. Now I love riding the bus over the past month and a half at the new job I have really had a burden to pray for the people on the bus and the streets. Some people you can just see the pain and hurt on there face. You know all my life I have lived in areas with rough neighborhoods but I have not sat down until recently and just prayed for the people. Now it is not in my nature to approach some homeless man and ask him if I can pray for him or to go out and preach on the bus. But I feel that this city needs people praying for it.
Sorry if I am kind of rambling on but it has been on my heart the last few weeks the most maybe cause as I was driving past in the car you really cant look into the face of the city and see the hurt. So please pray for the people of Portland this city could really use it. Thanks rp
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Ryan, glad the job is working out  As a former homeless person[4 year's 'riding the rail's], I would suggest that as you speak with a person God has laid on you, be ready, OFFER, to buy the person you are speaking with a meal...when the belly is hurting, the spirit ain't listening.Good man, Ryan
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04-30-2009, 02:19 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Clackamas, OR
Posts: 11,222
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Re: City in need
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Originally Posted by feisty
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yeah it is not just the homeless that tears at my heart it is the single mothers dragging four kids on the bus. the lost teen that you can see is hurting with cut marks on her arms. To the middle aged guy in a suit that just looks miserable. Right now I feel the urge to pray for them maybe in time I will feel Gods tug on my heart to do more. rp
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