Homeless People Are Being Shipped Off To A Camp

    Here is a situation happening right now in South Carolina. I want to make people aware of this so we can pray, and look for opportunities to minister. This may be the time when the church could take the initiative and come up with ideas and plans to help and serve the homeless.
http://truthia.com/its-now-illegal-to-be-homeless/
   We need to be aware of 2 things:
       1. To pray for this situation
       2. To take action
  Taking care of the homeless should be the responsibility of the church, but since that hasn't happened, the government is stepping in and taking responsibility. The government's idea of helping this situation is to take the homeless people who live in this area of South Carolina, and send them to camps. I am not sure what these camps are supposed to do, but, it is illegal for people to be homeless there. So, when the camps are filled, which should happen immediately, there will be leftover people who won't have a place to go to. Will they be arrested? Sent to prison? Where are they supposed to go? How can we help?
   There are different reasons for people being homeless. Many are just out of a job and have lost their homes. Some are too sick to work. Others are retarded or handicapped and have no one to care for them. And yet, there are those who are either lazy or don't want to work because of some philosophy they have bought into.
   In Orlando, there is a place called, 'Orlando Rescue Mission' where homeless people can stay for a period of time. While they are there, there are classes which help them develop careers. You will be ministered to while staying at this place. It does have boundaries though, and sadly many homeless people do not understand about boundaries, possibly because they never had boundaries placed around them as children. Many homeless do not want to go to this place, because they do not want to be responsible for themselves and would rather stay in the woods.
  I personally think that much of our homelessness comes as a result of the broken down home unit. Marriage is not an option for many, and much of the homeless society consists of moms with children from different fathers. This is why marriage should be held in high honor. People are surprised today to learn that the act of lusting after another person sexually is like committing adultery of the heart. Much of the homeless society, as well as society in general, has no clue of what is right an wrong. Perhaps this is do to the fact that the 10 Commandments were taken out of the schools and are continually being weeded out of the government under the guise of 'separation of church and state' which is a modern day man-made idea of something that is supposedly in the Constitution, but it really isn't.

     Whatever the reason, we need to be praying for the homeless and looking for ways we can serve and minister. Who knows. Maybe we could be the ones building shelters and having classes for people who are displaced so they can become woven back into society. As the homeless hear the Gospel, they can be changed and perhaps they could be the ones to pave the way for other homeless men, women, and children to hear the Gospel and be discipled. Who knows what God will do when we pray?