Sorry that their hasn't been a post in AGES, but I have actually been rushed off my feet!!
So last week I went to do mission in Cambridge with beyond belief along with about 250 other young people which was AMAZING!! I met up with my other YFCone gap year team which was lovely!
We all got split into smaller groups to take on a certain area of service each... I got placed in the street evangelism group and I was terrified... Each day started off with worship and teaching, led by Soul Survivor and YFC, then we would have lunch and go to our placements. For the first 2 days, I was too nervous to enter into conversation that we were having with people, so I just hid at the back and I hated it because I felt so far out of my depth....
The next morning in the talk, Mike Pilavachi decided it would be good to pray for boldness in our placements to step out in faith. Because I didn't want this trip to be a waste of money, I went to the front with my friends and pretty much everyone in the whole room. I didn't really feel as though it would work as I was that apprehensive and cautious about the whole experience, but I went up anyway seeing as God was listening and all....
That day, we were walking around where we were evangelising and I spotted a team of American footballers and said 'Rugby's better', to which a man replied 'I agree!' I turned around with my team and started talking to this random guy... I found out that he had been going through a really rough time and was now homeless.... I invited him to a cafe that we held in a church in the evenings and then left him to get up to whatever he was doing...(At this point I thought, hang on, I work with homeless people back in Kingston, coincidence? I think not!!)
The afternoon drew to a close and we went on to the cafe to set up. At exactly 6.30pm when it opened in came the homeless guy I was speaking to earlier.... He sat down, I bought him a coffee and we talked for about an hour and a half about the things he was going through. About an hour in, I decided right, God needs to be introduced in this conversation, so I just casually said, 'I think God put me and you in the same place at the same time, so that I could talk to you and help you.' To which he replied 'Meh'....
I persevered with the God chat and it seemed to work....He went from not really caring to questioning everything that had happened and thinking that maybe there is something else out there.... At this point, I got out a bible that we had all been given to give someone we thought God was telling us to give it to.<-- Sorry for that sentence, it's pretty poor I know... So I gave him the bible and he seemed really touched, and couldn't say thank you enough... The evening ended and we all prayed for him. A couple of us exchanged numbers with him so we could see how he was getting on...Anyway, today I had a text from him saying:
'Thank you so much for listening that night, I'm reading my bible right now and I;m starting to believe in myself again, I hope I can repay you one day.'
God is so good.... I feel comfortable talking to people about God and through that I have helped a guy come to learn about Jesus!
(I think this is defo competing with the story below :P)
