"When you've done it unto the least of these"

"When you've done it unto the least of these My brothers you've done it unto me."
I don't know the man's heart in the following photo but Jesus knows; I do know this his clothes were dirty from sleeping outside; probably because he cleans himself in outside toilet and the weather here is cold for Okinawa he really didn't smell to good either. BUT he was sitting behind my wife and I at a Christmas party held for the homeless he sang his heart out on all the carols that were being sung. His voice wasn't the best and he'd probably never be asked to sing in the choir, but boy was he loud.

This guy got an evening away from the park where he lives, a real meal with all kinds of different food and hopefully experienced a little love as well. Many I read on Face Book would not like the religious type atmosphere that was present, the ministers in their suits and ties, but they weren't turning their backs on the homeless and holding Christmas parties for only their own little groups, they were reaching out to the ones not many love or even notice as they sleep on benches in the park for lack of a warm bed. Jesus also said something concerning "If your going to have a big feast invite those who can't pay you back."

The other fellow went to sleep during all the stuff they do before finally getting around to feeding these folks, hope somebody woke him up before all the food was gone:)

Promise Keepers Feed The Homeless at Yoge Park

The Christian group called The Promise Keepers have a homeless feed every Saturday morning in Yoge Park near downtown Naha City. Every week a different Christian fellowship handles most of the preparation and serving. This week a motorcycle club here on the Island took that job upon themselves; this is a special group of men who are involved in lots of humanitarian work here and in other places. The first picture is when we came into the park and was coming up to the site the event was held on.

 Yoge Park is a beautiful park

  The food line was long

 The food line was long

 Gathering for prayer before the event

 A little gospel music

 The evangelist in worship.

 A lady pastor who worshipped in dance.

 A blind evangelist who brought a short message before the meal.

 This is the food line, lots of people came to be blessed and fed.

A few more shots from around Okinawa, don't post much spending far too much time on my job:( But it pays the bills and buys me cameras:)

 Selective color lady in the park.

 Rays over Urasoe City

 Beach on Hwy. 58

 Early morning stretching.

 A beach near Alivila Resort Hotel.

Trees by the roadside.

Okinawa Sky late afternoon

All shoot with a Fuji X-S1 on a late afternoon walk along the river.

Some shots using both my Fuji X-S1 and my smaller HS50EXR hope you enjoy. The 1st is a full moon taken the night before the rainy season set back in, the others are the little canal that runs directly in front of our apartment showing how high the water came up and in one the force of the rain.

 

Fuji HS50exr

Some zoom shots taken off Renaissance Beach using a Fuji HS50EXR.
The 1st three were out almost beyond eye's reach, but using the digital zoom on the little HS50EXR I could bring them in with what I think is a pretty good picture. The last is of a father walking his son along the sea wall.

More downtown Naha City pictures taken on some trips to downtown Naha City by monorail.
It's easier from our place in Urasoe City to take the monorail than to drive downtown and find a parking place. These didn't line up the way I intended, as usual. lol! These were taken with my X-S1 Fuji which is a rather large bridge camera with needless to say a fixed lens with the ability using digital zoom to stretch out to around 1200 mm.

This is where we start our journey from.

An American Corvette drags main street:)

Street Artist downtown Naha.

A drug store, 100 Yen Store on a little side street.

People headed home from work.

Sakura time In Okinawa

Okinawa has cherry blossoms earlier than on
the mainland. Ours have been around a couple of weeks now
and some are already beginning to disappear.