Thursday Morning with Joel

Joel is another good friend of mine from church. He’s been with us for a quite a while and is active in the ministry here. He’s been through discipleship and is applying the principles consistently, like today. Joel has Thursdays off, so we took some time this morning to hit the streets, hang some “What if…?” tracts on houses, and witness to some folks on the street.

• In front of a mechanic’s garage.
• At a bus stop.

As we were walking through the neighborhood of Vargas Araya, we ran across a bunch of men in front of a car mechanic’s shop, and they were just “shooting the bull,” so we gave them tracts and witnessed to them. The guy leaning on the top of the truck cab in the picture ask me, “Didn’t I see you on the news last night?” :-) Yep! In the last post (yesterday) I mentioned that a reporter filmed our open-air preaching, and I guess it made the news last night. What a riot… But, it was a good ice-breaker and we got to speak to these men for a good while about sin, righteousness, judgment to come, and what God has done for them in the Lord Jesus Christ.

The other picture is of a couple guys we bumped into at a bus stop. We got to witness to them, too, and a bus driver and a young lady who got on the bus before we snapped the pic.

When it was all said and done, we had hung about 400 “What if…?” tracts in Vargas Araya and talked to several people about the Lord. We also had a great time talking about “life, love, and happiness” in the Lord Jesus Christ.

It’s not every Thursday I can do stuff like this because I’m usually teaching a Bible study in the evening, and I have to prepare. Tonight is our monthly study of “Personal Relationships” (dating, marriage, family, etc.), so since it’s already written, it doesn’t take me as long to prepare and I can to extra stuff like this. What a blessing! :-)

~Greg