Fear of Evangelism Proves Irrational

Stacey - had previously wrote about being nervous to give her a tract, and then my other colleague Rachel encouraged me to because she had a conversation with her where Stacey revealed that she was scared of death.

I finally asked her if I could give her a tract. She actually said "I've seen you handing these around and was wondering, when are you going to give me mine!"
Thank God I was able to talk to her as well about what she believes.

She said that her grandmother used to take her to church when she was little and that her grandmother was heavily involved in her church but then stopped going. When I asked her what she believed, she said that she believed in a God. She said there would have to be. Particularly since just looking at the world, how big it is etc. She also said she believes there must be something after this life, because what would be the purpose.

We talked a bit about her, and how she sometimes was scared of dying. Particularly since she felt like she has so much more to live rather than where she would go. Asked her what she thought would happen after death, and she said she feels like she would go to the "good place" because she felt she was a good person. I was able to talk to her about sin, Jesus dying on the cross for us, that we were sinners destined to hell (think that woke her up a bit), and believing in Jesus and asking for forgiveness etc. I didn't go into a lot of detail, but was able to chat with her, thank God! 

She said she would read the tract.

I then went to tell my supervisor, Su Ann, who is a Christian. Since Stacey and her are very close, and she knows about my tracting. I encouraged Su Ann to follow up with Stacey, since they are close and she's never really talked to her about her faith before.

Thank God for the experience and ability to talk to Stacey, especially as I had in mind that I would tract her. Pray that she would one day come to accept Christ or want to know more. 

Which Tract Should I Give Out?

Rachel - My colleague who is a Christian. I was talking to her this afternoon and saying how I'm a bit nervous about giving out the tracts in my work place, especially if I get into trouble for it. She mentioned that I'm not forcing people to take it and if people get offended they can always tell me that they're not interested or hand it back etc. I thought I had given her the tract previously a while ago, but she said that I hadn't.

When I gave her one to look at her eyes lit up and she said that they were exactly the same tracts that her Uncle used to give out in New Zealand! Her Uncle would hitch hike, go around the world handing out the tracts and books and ask people about God. 

Her sister had recently asked her which tracts were appropriate to give out and Rachel had mentioned that the Uncle used to give out tracts "something about life" and something about cartoons.

She asked if she could keep it to show her sister and I said yes.

She then mentioned how it was often difficult to hand out tracts to others, but not to worry about consequences. I then talked to her about certain colleagues I felt fearful in giving the tracts to, particularly one named Stacey (who is lovely but just nervous about it). Rach said she would love me to give one to Stacey because she is genuinely scared about death. One time they had a short talk about how Stacey believes in God but doesn't "have the faith" like Rachel.

I said I would definitely pray, and usually Stacey and I are the last people to leave the office. I said maybe I might even have a chance to talk to her a bit.

Twice Approached by the Same Church

The first time you receive a tract in the streets, perhaps you start to wonder if God is speaking to you. However, when you receive the same tract twice, this time in a different place but from the same Church, perhaps it's time to pay attention: 

Mr Chen is from China. He is an elderly man who brought his wife to join the South Perth Old Folks' Home Sunday Worship service. He actually met Lee Lee at Street Evangelism in the city earlier this year. Preached the gospel to him and invited him to our church. Told him we're willing to pick him up. He lives in Kardinya.

Opportunities Come to Those Looking

We were in the play room with three kids when she started telling me about how her teaching prac is at a Catholic Education School and how they made her lead the Lord's Prayer on her first day. She mentioned that she's Catholic, but not really and it was mainly her grandmother, who adopted her mother, that was devout and an "angel on earth". She said she had sort of departed from it but needed to go through the things she had learnt when she went to church as a child, particularly for that prac. When asked her why she had wandered, she mentioned that her mother had brought her to church only on Christmas or Easter and then that's when they just sort of stopped going all together.

I mentioned that I'm a Christian (I think she knows as we're friends on Facebook) and how there's differences in Catholicism (didn't get to go into detail as we were interrupted and she had to go off somewhere).

Then later on I knew I should give her a tract because God had opened this door for me, literally as if like handing it to me. I felt so nervous especially doing it in the work place and I didn't know Megan very very well.

I went to talk to my colleague, Rachel, who is a Christian about it and she just said "Just do it! God just handed it right to you." She then proceeded to go back to her desk and say that she would pray for me while I handed over the tract.

So off i went and finally handed the tract to my colleague, saying that this was a gospel tract and it might help her to read up about it. She said she would read it and it may benefit her prac. Thank God! Pray that Megan would read it and maybe we can discuss it some time.