Street Ministry

Alrighty, another post. :) Friday our group went to St. Georg, the other part of the Red Light District, the part where prostitution is illegal (but it still happens) and where most of the girls are trafficked, or not there willingly. I was looking forward to going all day, because I really have a heart for the Red Light District, as you could probably tell from my last blog entry. But when we got there, we had the option of either staying, or going to minister to drug addicts at the Hauptbahnhof (Central Station) and I really felt that God was telling me to go there instead of staying. I was very confused and kind of disappointed at first, because I REALLY wanted to minister to the prostitutes and worship on the street with the rest of my DTS. But instead, I was walking back to Central Station with 4 other people (2 were from my dts... Jonah, a lovely German lad and Jade, the raddest Canadian girl person alive).

So we arrived back at Central Station and we found out that we wouldn't really be ministering to drug addicts, just whoever we felt God was leading us to talk to. I was very mad at this point. When Jade, Jonah and I prayed, I prayed something like "Well God, you sent me here and I haven't witnessed anything SUPER spectacular yet on these outreaches and I'm kinda getting impatient, so it would be LOVELY if you would give us someone to talk to." I so regretted my attitude later, after God DID do something amazing. 

After getting blown off by a crippled man who told us something very rude, I was feeling deflated and rejected. But then we walked over to these two men just hanging out drinking a beer and smoking a cigarette. Jonah started by asking if we could just pray for them, and they said no. But then after talking to one of the guys with Jade for a couple minutes, we asked if we could pray for him. And he said yes. We prayed for his health, for his job, and for revelation of God's love for him. After we prayed, he had such joy in his eyes, and he asked us "Do you like orange?" We were like "uuuummmmmm... yes??" and he said "I'll be right back" and scurried away for a couple minutes and came back with orange flavored capri suns and a Mars bar for us. He said "By praying for me, you gave me energy, so I want to give you energy back." And he told Jonah later that he is so thankful for Jade and I praying for him because it showed him that we were genuinely interested in him and cared about him.

I can't even count how many times he said thank you. He was SO blessed by a simple prayer. We found out later that Jonah was talking to the other guy about God and he was taking a serious interest in Him. We also prayed for him, that he would be able to FEEL God and not just read about him on a paper we gave to him (he asked us to pray that over him). After the prayer, he said he could feel something stirring in his soul. Praise God. 

So ya, God definitely answered my prayer, even if I didn't ask Him in the nicest way possible. God seriously loves us and longs for a relationship with us and I'm realizing that more and more every day here at Youth With a Mission. Thanks for reading, and for your support for me. Love you all!