On Sunday, August 13, at the First Presbyterian Church, we celebrated Faith in Action Day. Instead of regular Sunday services, members signed up for a variety of service activities in the community. Twelve of us headed to the Rio Grande area to serve lunch to our homeless friends. We set up a table with food and water and I set off to invite people on the sidewalks to go down the street and get some food.
As I chatted with people on Rio Grande, 200 South and 500 West, I observed nine drug deals taking place, a number of people participating in drug use and quite a few people in various stages of drug use outcomes.