We have closed down several Mission Points over the past year and half. God has showed me clearly the results of shutting down Mission Points this past week. I am unable to really communicate the heartbreak that I feel when we have to look at the people of a community and say, “We can’t bring the Gospel to you.” It is ten times harder to look at them and say, “We must stop bringing the Gospel to you.” There is one community in Raleigh with over 300 units that we have been involved in since the second year of Mission Raleigh. While it has not been officially shut down it has only been be on one leg the past year trying to serve there.
We had a week long Kid’s Club there this past week. I had to break up fights every day as the kids were trying to impress the thugs hanging around during the club. One day I had to break up three fights in four minutes. I had to take steel pipes from youth and was even threatened by one of the youth with a steel pipe. Tears fell from my eyes as I realized that we had surrendered the ground that Christ had won there over the years. Some had to quit because there education and finished up, others had to leave because of family, some stop going out of fear, and I had not been a factor because of health. Our enemy quickly retook this precious ground and has reinforced his hold on the community. Makes me think of Matthew 12

Please pray that God will send reinforcements so that we can go reclaim that community in the precious time we have left.
Contact me at scotty@missionraleigh.org if you want more information on this subject.