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Battle Log > Plymouth Team > Friday, 25 September, 2009
Friday, 25 September, 2009
On Friday 25th September I flew across to Belfast in Northern Ireland to a Pentecostal Church with Lee Brock and Wayne Arthur who I do evangelism with. We went across with an aim to evangelise Friday night, explore the second hand Christian book shop and me to do a youth talk on the Saturday night, and Wayne to preach Sunday morning and evening.
The Church is called Forestside and is an amazing Christ centred bible believing Pentecostal evangelical Church. The Pastor and us 3 went out Friday evening to bellfast town centre to give out Christian evangelical newspapers from the Church and gospel tracts and to witness to people. We all had lots of conversations- I spoke with a group of teenagers in KFC which went well and they received a few gospel tracts each well. Another guy who was a Russel Brand lookalike, hair and all, had a really good chat, and although didnt claim to be religious at all, did enjoy discussing things of eternity and took a few tracts. I also showed him the scars on my leg and explained my reason for talking with them, as life is very short, and I think this made him agree that what we discussed was worth thinking deeply about.
Another guy I apporoached in my usual manner near a cash point didnt quite go so well. When asking him if he had any change for one of my million pound notes, and that my name was Matt and I was a youith worker, he abruptly and loudly replied ...'and Im in the I.R.A., now F"%# off! I politely smiled, and nervously walked away, wondering if he had misheard me, and fearing any more repercussions, but that was the only bad conversation of the night.
The saturday night talk went well, with about 60 young people present between the ages of 7- 15. I had not previously known that they wwere planning to show a short Way of the Master clip first. Of course when I heard they were planning to, I was over the moon as would tie in exactly with my testimony, how I became a Christian, and how we need to have a balance of Law and Grace to fully understand the immensity of what Jesus accomplished on the cross. It seemed to go well, with the vast majority of the kids getting a cartoon good person test tract at least, and a few millions.
Waynes preaching went fantastic in the morning, and even better in the evening, and the Pastors son who heads up the youth ministry there was encouraged by the talk I had given and said the young people were as well, especially seeing my 'shark bite' scar.
Next time we visit we hope to bring our wives/ fiancee's as well so should be even better! God gave us a fantastic weekend with amazing hospiotable Christians so cant wait to go back again.