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Meet Sam and Terry.  They are the two men in charge of the YWAM street evangelism program.



Terry (on the right) is 68 years old, and he is not “your typical Christian, Hallelujah!”  He is a British man who boxed professionally for more than twenty years. He found the Lord after a stint in prison for having stabbed a man. He’s a crazy, banjo-playing prankster!

Sam (on the left) is a little bit tamer. He is from a small town in Alabama, but he has lived and served in India, Africa, on Indian Reservations in Montana, and now, obviously, he’s in Budapest. He plays a mean electric guitar, changing the lyrics of rock & roll songs to describe his life story. At the age of 20, his friend died in his arms after a car accident, leaving him pondering the question, “What will happen to me when I die?”


Both of these men are on fire for the Lord and want to see His Kingdom come here on earth.
Me too!  They are gifted and anointed evangelists.  Me too?! 




 
 
So the basic deal is: we pray and then go to a park or plaza where we take turns performing, preaching, and mingling with the crowd.  My team has experience with open-air crusades and home visits from our time in Africa, but this is a bit different.  So at first we were a little shy. But walking up and initiating conversation becomes more natural with practice, and, for some reason, Hungarians are not freaked out at being approached by strangers.  The location where we set up shop yesterday and once last week is a busy thoroughfare, and many people lean up against the railing waiting for friends who are inevitably late.  “Waiting for God – oh” is what it seemed like to me!
 

Yesterday, I met two high school freshman girls who are disillusioned by life.  Within a minute of introducing ourselves, Lutsa blurted out that she was unhappy and lonely.  (This candidness reminded me of China, where the Lord practically laid students on my doorstep!)  She identified with the main character of our “Everything” drama (click here to watch another group’s performance of this drama), (I play the drunk girl, if you can imagine that!)  so that led to a great discussion about the dark forces of this world that beat us up all the time.  Lutsa is familiar with Bible stories, but she isn’t yet convinced that God is desperately reaching out His hand to her even now and that Jesus is willing and able to block the attacks and rescue her!
 


My teammate Laura talked to a young woman named Denise, who was having an “awful” day.  When Laura asked her what she wanted most, she replied, “To die!”  Thankfully, she kept hearing the name of Jesus in Sam’s lyrics, so Laura took the opportunity to share the truth of God’s love with her.  Click here to read more. 
 

We invited these girls and several others to the coffee house Friday night, so please pray that nothing will prevent them from coming.  We hope to build relationships with them as ambassadors of reconciliation. 
 
I believe that everyone is waiting for God, whether they realize it or not. 
And He is waiting for them!
 
 
* As always, THANK YOU to my teammate Angi Francesco who takes many of the photos posted on my blog.