“Ministering as opportunity surrounds us. This does not mean selecting our surroundings, it means being very selectly God’s in any haphazard surroundings which He engineers for us.”
Street evangelism.
As a team. We don’t meet people as one person. We meet people as a team. With the holy spirit, with our nani team behind us, sending each other off in prayer, in the incredibly strong name of Jesus Christ.
Celebrating afterwards, encouraging each other, lifting the name of Jesus, for He is seated high. Slava Bogu. Praise God.
Let me tell you, when you pray alongside your brothers and sisters in Christ here in Montenegro, having no idea what words are being exchanged between them and God… just feeling this intense desire to connect deeply with our God.
That… that is surely something. That is another kind of intimacy with God. That is another way to connect and another way to see God.
The thing about Montenegro is there are around 650,000 people here and out of that only 3 registered Christian evangelical churches. Meaning only about 150 or so Christians.
In the whole country.
The main religion here is Serbian Orthodox. Basically if you decide to be anything other than that you’re betraying Montenegro. Evangelical Christianity is seen as a cult or a sect.
Can you grasp all that?
I wish you could see it here.
I wish you could feel the spiritual battle going on.
I wish you could see the need on the faces of the people here for Jesus’ love in their lives.
Oh, if they just knew of His love.
Enter Crkva Hristovog Jevandelja, The Church of Christ Evangelistic.
We’re partnering alongside them this month doing street ministry.
Yes, street ministry. Going to the square, to the park, to the mall, to the market, wherever people are and we are making friends.
And let me tell ya, it is super awkward. But it is so awesome. And such a blessing.
I have been here a week now. And some of the friendships and conversations I’ve had are so sweet.
It goes back to that quote I put at the beginning,
“Ministering as opportunity surrounds us. This does not mean selecting our surroundings, it means being very selectly God’s in any haphazard surroundings which He engineers for us.”
People here, walking down the street, don’t make eye contact, don’t smile, and don’t talk together too much.
As my new friend Svetlana says, “It’s not bad it’s just different.”
Jesus just hung out with people. He went where people were.
He got filled by his Father and then he went to spend time with people. To get to know them and to love them.
That is what we’re doing this month.
And God is preparing us in so many ways, He is growing us.
Rejection is hard, but that’s OK!
God doesn’t want us to be super hard people from all of this, He wants us to be more and more open.
He wants us to continue to love more and more. He wants our hearts to break more and more.
He wants more from us. He wants us to want to be more like Him.
He wants more, and I don’t know why we keep resisting.
I wanna give Him my all.
The other day I heard someone say, “Are we gonna have anything left by the time we leave here?”
And I don’t remember what it was in reference to but I just remember thinking I HOPE NOT!!
I hope we give so much of ourselves away that God is the only option to fill us up!
This is a spiritual battle and we are the weapons.
We’re looking for a revolution, looking for a revelation.
Please be praying for the wall that is surrounding Podgorica and Montenegro to come crumbling down. Please pray for the relationships we’re building. Pray for the church and the people of the church here. Please pray for my team mates and I, our health and well-being as today was a rough one in that area.
There is such hope here, the holy spirit is at work and it’s so obvious. People are waiting to meet Him, it’s just a matter of time.
Woooooo!!!!
