Salvation Stories!! The First Story

As I mentioned in the previos post, I just got back from a mission trip in Waco and saw God move in incredible ways. I learned so much on the trip and had about 25 pages worth of notes in my journal. Even though I would love to share what I learned, I feel like it is more important to share the fruit of the trip as an encouragement to all who read. The Lord absolutly blessed me with getting to see nine people give their lives to Jesus!! IT was so incredible and gave complete glory to God as it could not have been done without Him!

The First Story: The afternoons of our trip were spent going out and sharing the Gospel in many different ways. The first few days we spent going door-to-door in a specific area of town the Antioch Community Church Waco felt like the Lord had highlighted for them to reach out to. One afternoon, I was going door to door with a women named Liz who was part of the Antioch Training Night School. She also works as an after school teacher. We came to a neighborhood and Liz made the comment, "This looks like a neighborhood that a lot of my students would live at. How cool would it be if we ran into some of my students and could share the Gospel with them?" And sure enough, as soon as we stepped out of the car, we saw a group of girls all playing in their yard and they were ALL Liz's students. We went over to the house. The girls were seven sisters from the ages of five to twelve and thier mom was outside too! How perfect. All the girls immediatly recognized Liz and started calling out her name. The mom came over with a smile and asked what we were doing in the neighborhood. We said that we were out telling people about Jesus and asked if we could share Jesus with her and her daughters! She said we could! (The family was Catholic and therefore heard about Jesus but really didn't know His story.) We shared the Gospel with the girls by having them act out the Bridge illustration. We did it twice so all the girls could get a chance to act it out. We asked them question to make sure they really understood the Gospel. We then asked them to raise thier hand if they wanted to accept Jesus in to thier heart! All seven of them raised thier hands! Praise the Lord!!! They repeated the prayer after us and then we spent time listening to God! We asked them if they heard from God and one girl raised her hand and said that God told her He loves her! It was beautiful. I then took the girls to play tag while Liz talked to the mom and shared the Gospel with her! They are going to start coming to Antioch and Liz is going to be able to disciple the girls and start a childrens lifegroup. The lifegroup is going to be at the girls' house and the mom wants to invite thier freinds and parents. The Lord really planted a seed thier! It was so awesome to see Him work through children and we have complete trust in the Lord that He is going to continue to work in thier hearts! God is sooo good!

Cooler stories to come!