Living the Journey

We just received the following encouraging report from Rachel, who attended a Journey in November of 2007 and has been participating in the Challenge II:

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A couple of months ago, I was taking my friend “Mrs. Smith” on a couple of errands and started to share the Lord with her. She can speak English pretty well, but her first language is Spanish so some of the verses were hard for her to understand. I ended up writing the references down and encouraged her to look them up in her Spanish Bible.

The next time I saw her I asked her about the verses. I was encouraged to hear that she had read some of them and wanted to get together to talk about them more! However, a couple of weeks ago I found out that Mrs. Smith was going back to Mexico as part of the process to get her US citizenship. She would be away for anywhere from 2 months to a year.

Shortly before this, I heard about the next Journey Challenge and that the focus would be on witnessing. I already try and witness to others, pass out tracts, etc., but I thought that it would be good to learn a few more verses and have the accountability of the challenge. So I joined.

Because Mrs. Smith had had trouble understanding some of the verses I had shared with her the first time, I prayed that God would help her to understand more of what I was sharing. This time I decided to take a different approach. I started to witness to her almost as if I was witnessing to a child. I took the time to explain many of the verses to her phrase by phrase and would ask her if she understand it before moving on. I was able to share the whole plan of salvation for the second time to her. She still did not make a decision for Christ, but wanted to get together later that week to talk more.

That was Wednesday, April 22nd. Two days later I took her on some more errands. I brought a couple of Spanish tracts and a Gideon New Testament in Spanish. I gave the tracts to her and she started reading them as I drove. Sometimes after reading a verse or two, she would stop and ask me to explain it. She realized that what I had shared with her before was a lot of what she was reading in the tract.

A couple of hours later I was on my way to drop Mrs. Smith off at work. We got there a little early so we sat and talked about the Gospel more. I then asked her if she would like to pray to receive Jesus as her Saviour from sin. She said, “Yes!” On April 24th at about 2pm, Mrs. Smith prayed to receive Jesus as her Saviour!

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).

~ Rachel

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