Fish-hooks and Car-wrecks

Here’s a really neat story that I would’ve posted yesterday, but, we were so busy living it that I didn’t have time to post.

Okay, go back a couple years. My family has been doing outreach ministries a local apartments since Brandon was a little guy. The first place we did it at was Oakbrook (right across the street from Riverwalk).
There was a boy (I only say boy because he was a boy when we first met him. He‘s probably like 17 now..) named Jaycob that came most of the time. He got into trouble every once in a while, but overall he was a pretty good kid.
As the years went by, he got a special place in our hearts that only a few of the apartment kids have gotten. Like most of the kids that have come to our various ministries, he moved away and we hardly ever see him.

Now, fast forward to yesterday morning.
My mom got an e-mail from Mrs. Connie, a lady from our outreach team, that said that she had been at the hospital and ran into Jaycob. Apparently he had been in a pretty bad car wreck, but he was fine (considering he had been in a car wreck), but, his best friend Mike, was in critical condition.

Fast forward a few hours. It’s around eleven A.M. we have people coming over for dinner the house is a wreck, and to top it all off, I find a fish-hook stuck in Lana’s kitty’s paw. Baaaad day. After trying and failing to remove the hook, my mom decided to take the cat to the vet.

When she got to the vet, they told her it would be about half an hour. So, she decided to take Jeremiah and Josiah out to eat while they waited. They were going to walk wherever they went and boys wanted to go to McD’s but mom didn’t want to cross the street with them so they went to Long John Silvers (which we hardly ever go to) instead.
While they were there, Jaycob’s step mom comes in. eventually, my mom gathers the courage to go over and talk to her (at this point she wasn‘t *positive* that it was her, she‘d only met her once - about 4 or 5 years ago).
She finds out that, yes, it was his step mom, and she told her that all of us from the “Church at Oakbrook”, which no longer even exists, were praying for them.

I just thought it was kinda cool that God used a little cat with a hook in its paw to get mom to go to a restaurant that she wouldn’t have gone to, so she could minister to the mom (that we don’t really even know) of a boy that we met at Oakbrook Church, all those years ago.