Bodoh! I just typed about 3 paragraphs and the computer went cuckoo on me. I’ll just tell you about faith trip.
Yesterday, us STEPPERS went on our faith trip. It’s part of our program. Basically, they just send us out into town with no knowledge of the town and no contacts with anyone there. They send us in groups and we walk out to “preach”? dunno la, just do a program, spread the gospel, tell people about the ship, invite people to come visit etc.
So jon, Claudia, jeanette, and Richard went in a group. Nationalities – UK, Switzerland, Canada, PNG, Malaysian. We went to the office to grab some ministry tools, like the map, the numbers presentation etc. We just followed the road and walked and walked with God’s direction. As we were walking, we heard a mans voice over a mic at a park next to where we were walking. It was a huge park, and the guy was speaking in Fijian. Then jon says “ lets go see what its all about, maybe he’s selling apples or something” So we did and on the way, we heard him say Word of God, then we knew he was preaching and got quite excited, when we saw him, he was with a small group off people. They are actually pastors from different churches who decided to start preaching there every Saturday. They’ve been doing that since last year and they’ve had good responses. So we talked to them, tell them where we’re from etc. and asked them if they’d let us do a program. They agreed and so we did!!! Did the map thing, introduced ourselves, did the numbers presentation, did a drama, i acted, not as the statue this time, but the person who moves the statue, then Richard preached and the end! By the time we ended it was already 12 and we were HUNGRY! We didn’t have any money, but the guy Richard met who happened to be someone from PNG as well, gave us 5 fiji dollars which we spent on drinks at a mall. Then we deciede to just walk out further to see if we can find some organization where we can do another program but bumped in to Janene’s group instead. While at the park with them, we decided to go back to the market place and do another program. It was so super nice. we actually just stood there in a group, started with a song to get people attention, and did the proram. Except this time, we did the gospel numbers presentation and about 5 of us preached. After the market place, we we drained but Jon said “ lets do another one!” HAH! This coming from the guy who wasn’t really into it at the beginning. So we did the same program at the mall but it included the drama this time which I did again. And after this program, a Hindu guy came to ask and challenged us to certain biblical things like why was the Sabbath changed an d all that. He so knows his scripture! We couldn’t answer and didn’t want to cause we didn’t want to argue and asked him to come to the ship. After that we just walked back to the ship at about 4.30pm. All this time without lunch! Oh ya, one lady treated us to some drinks when we were in the market place =D On the way, back, the engine guys were out having a picnic in the park and gave us some stuff to eat =)
SO yeap it was pretty awesome. Did you know that in Lautoka, the population is about 50,000 and they are 58% Christian, 30 +% Hindu, and 8+% Muslim. There are so many Indian people here! I would have never thought in a million years that Fiji would have many Indians! I wonder why though… but it’s a good chance for ministry. They still come to the ship and attend programs.
Think about it, I actually talked to people, strangers on the street and tell them about the love of Jesus. Something I would have never done if not for this opportunity. If I were to do the same thing in Malaysia, it would be so different. But I did it and I LOVE DOING IT!
I have to go for dinner. Will tell more and get pictures when I can
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