Recently our team, (One Pulse) and Darcy’s team, (Ethereal Flames) have been evangelizing together with the youth from Mission Ephrata (our home church this month). We’ve gone out evangelizing three times already, and the second time we went out for street evangelism on Aug. 20th, God used me to help bring my first person to know Christ!
The youth girls I was evangelizing with started a conservation about Jesus with a young man we encountered in French. They then asked me to pray for him to receive Christ as Lord and Savior so he could become a Christian. I was under the impression that the girls were going to translate the prayer for me, so I walked him through the Gospel and prayed that he would accept Jesus into his life, turn away from sin, and that now he was a new creation in Christ.
However, since the girls didn’t know enough English to translate for me, my prayer went untranslated as everyone around me listened to me pray in English with heads bowed in silence. My group was about to walk away when I asked one of the girls, “Does he speak English?” I hoped maybe he understood me and my prayer hadn’t been said to unhearing ears. “No,” they responded. And the young man himself said, “French. No English.”
I felt a little disappointed, but could I do? The only French I knew that helped with sharing the Gospel were the two fallback phrases the youth has taught us, “Jesus loves you” and “God bless you.” All I could do was know that God had heard my prayer and hope that He had sensed a heart change in this young man, or that otherwise someone would eventually pray for him to receive Christ in his own language. But the day wasn’t over yet…
(Read Part 2 of Street Evangelism for another story of how God showed up that day!)
Please pray that this young Ivorian man would come to understand the decision that he made for Christ. Pray that he would start attending church and that other believers would be able to show him how to live a Christian life.
Thank you to everyone who has supported me financially or prayed for me since my last blog! It is such a blessing to finally be able to share stories from the mission field and I am so blessed to have a team of supporters back home that are helping to make this mission trip possible!
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