Hey everyone, sorry I didn’t get a chance to update last week, we’ve been keeping very busy. It was an amazing time of evangelism as we saw a man from China give his life to the Lord right in the heart of the Red Light District! We also had some great talks with people and got to prophesy over them and really bless and encourage them.
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This past week was very fruitful. We had the students lead out each outreach this week, and one day they decided it would be good if we all made five of our own tracts and handed them out to people in the city center.
So I was partnered up with one of my students named Grace. We saw a woman sitting by herself eating her lunch, so we decided to go talk to her. She was just about to leave as we approached her and we began talking. She was from Poland and was having a real hard time. We began telling her about Jesus and how he wants to have a relationship with her. She told us that she was done with Church because she has seen the Catholic Church back home do some horrible things. She said that she believed God desires us to have a family, but how can priests talk about families when they don’t have any of their own?
I told her that God does desire family and he desires relationship. Grace asked if she could pray for her and she said yes. While we were praying tears began streaming down the woman’s face. She told us that we came at just the right time. That day she was contemplating life and wondering if their was something more to it that she was missing. The next day was her 30th Birthday. We told her that God wanted to have a real relationship with her and she began crying even more. I asked if she wanted to accept Jesus right there, but she said no, she wasn’t ready. So I gave her the salvation tract that I made which has my email on it. I told her to read it and email me if she wanted to talk. It was perfect too, because the tract was all about having a relationship with God!
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Later that week, some students decided that we would go into the Red Light District at night to worship and bring Heaven down. Our focus was to be worship, and to talk to people only if we felt led to. So I brought my guitar and set up right on one of the bridges in the middle of all the action as well as Lauren, who was playing guitar also and singing, and Daniel who was playing djembe (African drum).
We worshiped there for about an hour or so and really felt the presence of God. People began stopping and listening to what we were doing. We could sense Christians were walking by and becoming convicted by our worship. Others were jeering at us and mocking us, but we kept on singing and playing to the Lord.
About 45 minutes into it, a man with a guitar in his hand came up to us and stopped to listen. He stood there for about 10 minutes and then began to cry! The Holy Spirit was ministering to him right there. We weren’t sure if we should talk to him because we didn’t want to interfere with what God was doing, but finally Joel, a man on our team, decided to go talk with him.
The man was French and could only speak a little English, but he completely understood what we were doing and that he needed Jesus. Joel led him through the Romans Road and the man said he believed. Joel prayed for him and tears were just streaming down the man’s face. He accepted Jesus that night, and all we were doing was worshiping God. It wasn’t our persuasive words that spoke to him, it was the atmosphere of high praise.
As Joel was still talking to the man, a police officer came up to us and told us to stop. Even though we have worshiped in the Red Light District many times, he told us we weren’t allowed to play. Many police officers past us that night, some even listened to us, but this one told us to stop. We believe it was the enemy trying to hinder us, but it was too late!
God is doing amazing things and we are expectant for more in our last week in Amsterdam before we head to Berlin! Please keep us in your prayers and God bless.
