5-15-11
We were at the morning church service at Calvary Motherwell. My wife and I met a couple named Graeme (pronounced “Graham”) and Sandra. Sandra is a missionary from many years ago who met her current husband in Scotland. My wife and I connected with them immediately, we prayed for them and their needs. Graem invited us to his house on Wednesday evening for a Bible study. The evening ended, and you could feel the presence of the Lord heavily on our hearts and minds.
On Wednesday evening (5-18-11), about a dozen classmates went to Graeme’s house for the Bible study. Graeme was planning on going through 14 verses in Daniel chapter 2, but the Spirit compelled him to go through 49 verses. Graeme said he just couldn’t stop. After the study we were fellowshipping and one of the students was able to lead a man named Andy to the Lord. She (the student) told Andy that if she were to die tonight angels would usher her into Heaven, and she asked him if he were to die what would happen to him. He made a gesture with his hand that he would be going down. The student asked if he would like to change this, and he said yes. This is when she walked him through the sinner’s prayer. They both were in tears, and the whole house started rejoicing! Again, the Spirit of the Lord was so heavy that it was hard to leave the house and it was hard to go to sleep that night. The next day we talked to Graeme and he said that he and Sandra had had trouble sleeping because they were so excited about what God was doing in their house. Sandra said it was amazing to see God like this.
5-20-11
We took a bus to go and do our laundry. On our bus I met a man named Tam (pronounced “Tom”). He asked what we were doing and where we were from. I told him we were from San Diego, California and that we were here to be an accurate expression of the love of Jesus Christ. I asked him if he knew who Jesus was, and he said, “Yes, He is my Lord and Savior.” His story is how God delivered him from 17 years of heroine use. He started when he was 14 years old. He had been caught stealing from a man he used to sell drugs to, and the man told him when he caught him, “You have two choices: 1. You can go to jail, or 2. You can go see the priest. Tam chose to go to the priest. Tam said that’s when he was born again. He currently had 6 months clean and sober. I invited him to a free lunch at the church on Tuesday and I was able to pray with him on the bus. You could see the joy of the Lord in his eyes. What a blessing!