Encounters

This past Thursday night, we had the privilege to meet a man named Sean. Sean is a 40 year old construction worker from Connecticut who is down here working after the Spring storms hit. While Ed and I were sitting on the bench in the mall talking and preparing to share the Gospel, Sean “just happened” to sit down on a bench across from us. He heard us talking about the Gospel, and then asked us if he could borrow a cell phone, because he didn’t have the ten dollars to reactivate the one in his hand. He told us he just got out of jail this past Monday and needed to get in touch with his boss to get paid. Ed and I did not have the ten dollars, but we gave him what we had. We spent the next part of the night trying to find him some money and driving him to get his phone turned on. The night did not turn out the way Sean planned. We could not get his phone turned on, but during all of our running around he agreed to listen to the Gospel. At the end of the night, standing in the parking lot of the mall, we had the privilege to tell Sean the Gospel. He listened, but with no response. He did tell us more than once how he was so impressed that two strangers would go out of their way and do so much to minister to his needs. Please pray that God would grant Sean saving grace.