Great day today! Everyone had several meaningful spiritual conversations at the coffee outreach to the party-all-night crowd. One guy remembered me from last year and we got to go farther this year. He told me his life would be much easier if he had a faith like mine. Got him to start longing for a better life. I was paired with two guys from the Netherlands and they learned something about conversational evangelism. Even the English-only team members got to have some great and meaningful conversations. Prayer is opening the doors to the hearts. Keep it up.
We passed out cookies to the sanitation workers. Members of a local church joined us and provided all the cookies. They had 80 bags. All the sanitation workers were surprised. Not every outreacher connected with conversation but I had some great ones and got to joke around with a bunch of guys and girls. I am hoping they can see that Christians are real people and can connect with the average person. I really look forward to being with them again on Wednesday. No spiritual conversations but they did not treat me as an outsider.
In the afternoon we distributed 350 bags of cookies at two of the major tram and bus stations. Got to brag about the cookies and tell them the bags were from Americans. They were really surprised. Even more so when we told them to save the boxes and we would refill them on Wednesday. We left our believer contact talking to his colleagues about cookies, church and faith. Gotta love that. Last year he was too shy and this year he is excited about the outreach to his colleagues.
Dined tonight with some former missionary friends. He wants to do some outreach with me (John) so we will do some unplanned and God-directed outreach Wednesday evening.
Tuesday is the national holiday or independence day here. Gonna take the team to Brussels for the day and catch the fireworks at night if it does not rain us out. Another long day but it will refresh us for the push into the end of the week. Stay tuned for more of what God is doing.
We passed out cookies to the sanitation workers. Members of a local church joined us and provided all the cookies. They had 80 bags. All the sanitation workers were surprised. Not every outreacher connected with conversation but I had some great ones and got to joke around with a bunch of guys and girls. I am hoping they can see that Christians are real people and can connect with the average person. I really look forward to being with them again on Wednesday. No spiritual conversations but they did not treat me as an outsider.
In the afternoon we distributed 350 bags of cookies at two of the major tram and bus stations. Got to brag about the cookies and tell them the bags were from Americans. They were really surprised. Even more so when we told them to save the boxes and we would refill them on Wednesday. We left our believer contact talking to his colleagues about cookies, church and faith. Gotta love that. Last year he was too shy and this year he is excited about the outreach to his colleagues.
Dined tonight with some former missionary friends. He wants to do some outreach with me (John) so we will do some unplanned and God-directed outreach Wednesday evening.
Tuesday is the national holiday or independence day here. Gonna take the team to Brussels for the day and catch the fireworks at night if it does not rain us out. Another long day but it will refresh us for the push into the end of the week. Stay tuned for more of what God is doing.
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