Saturday-night witnessing adventures
I took the young people out witnessing at an outdoor mall Saturday night. We met with about 20 other young people from nearby homes. After organizing teams of two, I realized I didn’t have money to pay the parking toll. So off I went to hunt down a bank so I could snatch money from my account to get me out of this "emergency."
I was glad to find I still had around 20 Reais ($8 US) I could withdraw. I figured this was enough of a thrill for one night, when I suddenly get a phone call notifying me that one of the teens had lost their cell phone and some unknown dude has it and is waiting around to return it.
So then I’m off again to the rescue, and since discovering I’m the one in charge of this whole "operation", I start looking for this "dude with a phone." One slight problem: everyone has a cell phone so my search was literally getting nowhere.
Finally I find the girl who had lost her cellular, and she’d already found it, so at long last I was free to do what I came to do, and that’s witness. (Besides the fact that it would look really bad in the end if I don’t have any souls won and I’m supposed to be setting a sample.)
I decided that my goal was to find one person to witness to that would be really worth it. After talking to a couple of people, I came across this girl sitting on a bench and began talking to her. She’s a university student, has a job at this same mall, and teaches poor kids in the slum during her off-hours. After praying with us (me and my witnessing buddy) to receive Jesus, she told us she had been sitting there, sort of meditating, and we’d "fallen right out of Heaven."