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Witnessing road trip
A few months later summer time
came around. We’d planned to go to a
music festival up north, accompanied by
some JT board members and almost all
the pre-teens and teens in the area, so
we invited her to come. She’d witnessed
with us before here and there, but this
music festival really set her on fire. With
the wonderful sample of those witnessing
alongside her, she caught right on.
The second afternoon of the three-day
festival she came back from witnessing
for a couple of hours with Jan of Eva,
and had won 40 souls! I was amazed. We
saw her grabbing the hands of a group
of guys she’d been witnessing to, asking
them all to hold hands in a circle as she
led them to the Lord.
She joined us as we sang and danced,
lifting our arms and praising the Lord
right next to the main promenade, she
gave out tracts right and left, and got up
early for extra Word and praise time. She
noticed how different the Family young
people were from her System counterparts,
and was very impressed by their
sample of loving the Lord and not caring
about what others thought of them.
Mia with some boys she led to the Lord
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lives. From that point on she’s been hearing
from the Lord for herself very often,
having praise times before she gets out
of bed in the morning, praying whenever
she gets the chance to, on the bus, at the
beach, at home etc.
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You don’t have to wait till Heaven
Mia recently completed the 12
Foundation Stones course and we had a
graduation evening for her where she
shared some beautiful things about how
meeting us in the Family, studying the 12
FS, and getting to know us has changed
her life. She went on to give Renee,
Kevin, and I (those of us who were her
main teachers) little slips of paper with
sweet personal notes, one of which I will
share on the following page.
I believe that in Heaven each of us
who’ve won souls will be swimming in
notes such as these, which give such a
warm feeling of fulfillment and happiness,
knowing that we took that extra step
for the Lord, did what was difficult for us,
loved that lost soul, went out witnessing
that day when it was freezing cold, rainy,
or torridly hot, made that phone call
when we didn’t feel like it, stepped out of
our pride to witness to that good-looking
guy or girl we were feeling too shy to approach,
or pulled out the guitar to sing
for someone even though it was uncomfortable
to sing to a complete stranger, or
got up in front of a crowd of university
students when we’d never had a knack for
public speaking … and the list goes on.
Witnessing at a music festival