The kingdom of heaven lands on an apartment complex
Sunday August 1st, we had an awesome time of fellowship with the body of Christ in Moss Bluff. We were all mutually refreshed by being with each other in God’s presence. Some of our crew led worship, and their pastor, Clayton, shared from God’s word in John 14. After assembly, we had an old-fashioned pot luck together, spending the remainder of the afternoon just enjoying each other’s company (some went looking for alligators while others stayed back to play scrabble).
In the evening we did an outreach at a government apartment complex where one of the families from the church lives. This apartment complex was a dark place known for violence and immorality. At the outreach there were nearly 40 young kids from ages 6-18 as well as a good handful of adults. It was awesome to see all the kids gather around to hear the gospel and watch the drama about Jesus, many of the kids were hearing the gospel explained to them for the very first time! A group of 13-14 year old boys all made decisions for Christ and we were able to hand out a lot of Bible and disciple kids in how to grow in relationship with God.
Towards the end of our time there Jeremy got in a conversation with a man who was casually and curiously walking thru the parking lot. The man totally opened up about what was going on in his life and how he had turned away from God the past few month diving back into a very sinful lifestyle. After praying with him, the man said that a weight just fell off his shoulders! Then he mentioned that around 5:30pm that day his sister had come by to see if he wanted to go to church. He said no, but agreed to let her pray for him. All she had prayed was that God would send a man into his life to speak truth to him and help him get on the right track. He didn’t know about the outreach, but saw all the people hanging out so decided to go walk around. He walked right into the divine appointed answer to his sisters prayer within 2 hours of her praying. The icing on the cake was that the family from the Moss Bluff church lives a few doors over. So God sent a quick answer and a long term answer to help disciple this guy!
God is so cool. He just keeps doing all kinds of fun stuff because he loves people and is after a personal intimate relationship with them!
