“Our TrashTalk Team is off to
Dublin May 10-18 to carry a cross and pick up trash with our message that our trash bags are for the trash on the streets and the cross is for the trash in our hearts.”
Last night as the ladies led us in an exciting, creative missions evening at the Bethel World Outreach Ministries Church in Trinidad, I could tell my upcoming message would not be the best fit. So changing the game plan I shared about three woman, who, if it was not for them, I would not be on this Caribbean island tonight.
– Mum, who when my dad left us, scrapped and scraped to raise four of us on her own.
– May, manageress of a local store, where at age 14, I got a weekend job. She was like God with skin on to me, and brought me to a meeting when I was 18 where I gave my life to the Lord.
– Mrs Clapp, who prayed for 15 years for a high-school near New York City that young people would be saved and sent all over the world. The first one to be saved and sent was George Verwer, who messed up my life one Wednesday chapel 38 years ago at the now The London School of Theology, launching me in missions.
I believed last night there were more mothers, manageresses and prayer warriors to impact the next generation. Pray for the next 4 nights here with my Rachel and my OM colleague, Stephen Andrews assisting me. I sense some more game changes.
Along with Rachel, shared for an hour with a dozen gals last night
– one left as a newborn by her mother on the street
– one killed her 5 year old
– one from 14 to 27 years forced into an incestuous relationship with her father.
Praise God. Some reached out and took God’s hand of friendship.
Then shared my story for another hour with 60 men – some lifers for murder.
Saw many stand to go God’s way, not there’s.
Wonderful time with Joy Church (led by by Pastor Danny Han) In downtown Manhattan speaking on the Church God Uses to Impact the World. I think I found such a church that night.