Today we had a very large crowd. I'm guessing 35-40. We expected to have that many people in August, because several places that people rely on for breakfast are closing for the month of August. Now, I'm thinking the crowd in August is going to be much bigger than expected. The large numbers of people coming with empty stomachs has not come without provisions. God is providing the food proportionally to the people. Our friends at the Catholic worker house in New Haven are closed for August, and are giving us many of their donations. Churches have started to help by giving us some food.

Today, one of our new friends who is new to new Haven really needed to talk about something that had gone wrong. We were so busy that I wasn't able to give him more than a minute or two. Now, I think I should have ignored the crowd and listened to him instead...but I didn't.

We've been working on getting more people to come down to the green in the mornings, or even just one morning a week, but we've been unsuccessful so far.