Tuesday the missions team from Richmond came back to the city and conducted a street campaign at Cinco de Mayo. Their outreach made Thursday’s newspaper in Prensa.
We got to join them for that outreach.
During setup, several of the team members broke up into little groups and went inviting people to the drama. Brandon served one team to help give the invitations.
As with the church planting park outreach on Saturday, the Crestwood team used the same dramas:
- Ragman
- Man of Miracles
Crowds gathered to watch, see and hear.
Different teens gave a brief testimony and then one of the adults gave a brief invitation to conversation and prayer.
After the dramas and invitation, the team broke up in to little groups and went and prayed with individuals.
The Sovereignty of God in Evangelism
As we conversed with people who wanted prayer after the dramas, the sovereignty of God became very obvious. People who were
- desperately seeking God found themselves hearing of God’s love for them.
- running from God found themselves confronted with God’s pursuit of them.
For example, in our conversations:
1. An immigrant from Nicaragua seeking employment in Panama City left his church 3 years ago, but this day felt God’s tug on his heart to walk in the ways of the Lord again. We’ve invited him to join our church plant.
2. A teacher from the rural province where I taught in the Darien was in the city after abandoning his family felt God’s call to repentance and return to his family and church. We referred him to pastor where I preached his hometown.
Those were our conversations. I only heard about one team who spoke with a gang member who left the church a few years ago feeling confronted by God’s love to leave that life and get back to walking with the Lord.
I’ve yet to hear some of the others from the team about what they had.
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