Awesome Outreach!

Today, after church, I went with a friend to an apartment complex in Portland, Oregon to pass out Gospel tracts & share Christ.  Upon arriving, we first talked with a security guard sitting on the steps. He turned out to be a Christian. He said that because of so much gang activity in the area, although he supported what we were doing, he could not allow us to hang around. His instructions were to keep anyone from loitering in the area.

But he pointed to an area close by that was near the street, and was public property.  So we went there & prayed that God would show us who to talk with. We first approached a black teenage girl by the name of Jasmine who was sitting on a bench.  After going through "Steps to Peace With God" with her, she prayed to accept Jesus. Then her boyfriend showed up. He was an arab-american & his name was  "Kish".

After going through the tract with him, he too prayed to accept Christ. Both of them signed their name in the tracts we gave them as a reminder of what they had done.  We gave them both New Testaments, & Saul wrote the name of a church in the area in the bibles.

Next, we decided to go to another nearby apartment complex where we had no problem going door to door.  We talked with an hispanic teenager named Louis who said his mom was Catholic. He had never accepted Christ. After going through "Steps to Peace with God", Louis wanted to pray to accept Christ. Again, we had him sign and date his tract, and gave him a New Testament with the name of a local church.

Finally, we ended up talking with Jennifer, who was a young mom of 21 who said she used to go to Victory Outreach. When asked, she said she had never prayed to accept Christ. When we went through the tract, she said she was interested but did not want to pray just yet to accept Jesus. She said she wanted to wait until she felt she could start going to church regularly. She sounded like she wanted to "clean up her act first" & then come to Jesus.  Since she seemed to understand the tract, I told her about the thief on the cross who only prayed "Remember me.." & asked her if she could just pray "Thank you Jesus" & she prayed "thank you Jesus".  We left her with the tract.  Only God knows her heart, but I'd like to think that just like the thief on the cross, God accepted her short 3 word prayer.