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Battle Log > Plymouth Team > Saturday, 31 October, 2009
Saturday, 31 October, 2009
We didnt go out on Friday 30th due to bad weather, though 4 of us went to Truro for halloween from 11-3pm on 31st October.
My friend Phil volunteered to be a 'corpse' with a sheet drapped over him, and I preached for about 15 minutes outside the Cathedral against Halloween, death and people participating in demonic activities, and shared how Jesus came to give us life and save us from hell. Quite a few people stopped to listen, as I explained about death, causes of accidental death, and that no matter how rich or poor, happy or sad, tall or short, young or old that we would all one day give an account to God of our lives, and that the righteousness we need is in Jesus Christ alone.
We then managed to hand out a few tracts to people, before Shirley preached without a microphone to the apathetic locals who continued to walk past. We then stopped for lunch, and went to another part of Truro to preach. Again Phil volunteered to be a dead body, and I basically preached the same message, about the shortness of life, how if we believed in the Devil we must surely have to believe in a God as well, and explained how eternity is so much more important to think about and consider than the problems we have in this life.
Again the passers by and those seated eating their lunch were pretty quiet, although one lady spoke to me that her father had died quite recently and that death was not a nice thing to think about. A couple of young women had also stopped to listen, and I managed to give them some tracts and a new testament to read, after talking to them about death and the afterlife, which they received well.
Truro is always a hard place to go, with very little response normally, though they need to hear the gospel like everyone else does, and so were venturing to Exeter on saturday 15th which we always enjoy going to, and hopefully the Friday nights to the University, weather permitting, now we are leading up to Christmas, as we have more of a springboard to preach about.