When we arrived at the booth where Pastor Don and his son were, it was already swarming with people. We were prayed up and ready to go and boy did the Lord prepare the way!
We were all engaged in conversations everywhere..it was hard grabbing pics as someone was always talking to someone. People were coming up to us saying they wanted to take this "Good Person Test" this surprised Edwin as he had never done a Good Person booth before.
I started off with having a wonderful conversation with a man named Brian who was a Jewish man. Brian was asking me many questions and I was able to answer them all thanks to the training I have received from the School of Biblical Evangelism and the Way of the Master episodes etc. Brian was not at all closed to the Gospel, however he has one of the very curious minds and he left me with a Why Christianity booklet by Ray Comfort and a Scientific Proofs from the Bible by Ray Comfort. He was amazed at the scientific proofs in the Bible. He also said to me that if I am wrong I have nothing to lose really, but if I am right he does have a lot to lose. Please pray that Brian would seek the Lord while He still may be found. Here's a pic of me and Brian.
At the very start Jeff felt a great burden for souls, so much that he asked me if he should pray with someone if they felt they wanted to pray. We are very careful not to lead people through a "sinners prayer" as we don't want to lead someone in a false conversion. We know that God is Sovereign and we don't want to get in the way of His perfect timing by man made means such as a sinners prayer. For more on praying a prayer watch this 5 minute video by Paul Washer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc5lY9YP_bE and concerning false conversions please listen to: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4253981354315335400
Jeff's burden proved to be from the Lord as he was able to speak to many folks. One man was very receptive to the Gospel, although this man didn't repent right there, he was very concerned for his eternal destiny, Jeff was able to give him a Bible and other literature as well as pray for him to find the Lord.
Then Jeff was able to speak to several others and finally the big encounter happened. Elizabeth approached 2 young men and she started taking them through the law and the Gospel, Jeff came over to stand with her and he ended up speaking to these 2 young men, one named Peter the other Andrew. Andrew was broken, ended up in tears and right there bowed and prayed in his own words a beautiful prayer of repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus. His friend Peter was very supportive of Andrew's commitment. Andrew left saying he would contact Jeff through e-mail. Here's a snippet of the e-mail we received from Andrew that very night:
"Hey Jeff. This is the Andrew you spoke with who had the Peter friend. I said I would drop you a line. Uhm. This day was along time in the coming, honestly, So I told the Big man that if he wanted me, ta show me what ta do here, cause I was hurt and confused.
So, it's a little on the ironic, or devine, perhaps, side that I met up with you."
I am not sure of everything and I hope to have Jeff come type up more about this encounter. For now here is the picture and Andrew in the white hat bowing and praying.
I had my first encounter with being chased by someone while I was open airing. A very angry lady kept coming and putting her face in mine telling me to stop reading the Bible because she didn't want to hear it, but praise the Lord there were 3 folks that stopped to listen to me and they defended me and told this lady they wanted to hear me and that she needed to leave me alone. Jeff ended up coming and taking her aside and speaking to her. I felt so bad for her because she despised the Word of God so much. Do pray for this woman. The people who stopped to listen very very receptive and heard the full Gospel. One lady also came up to me and whispered in my ear, "Thank you for what you are doing for His glory" I was so grateful that the Lord sent me this encouragement.
There were so many more conversations, thousands of tracts handed out, Kiara and Kayla as usual were tracting many folks, Jonathan as well, Elizabeth was a bold witness for the Lord. Here's some more pics. We give glory to God for the many seeds that were sown and ask that you pray for those seeds! Pray for Andrew and that Jeff would be able to continue to disciple him.
