A street cleaner named Cindy came across our DRIME team as we were performing dramas. She said she saw our team at this same location in August 2014. The dramas had caught her eye then but she had been too busy to stop. Today she decided to stop so she could watch more of our dramas.
There was this woman, who after watching the dramas came to us. She wanted to know why we have accepted to make ourselves dirty by falling on the ground don’t we have better things to do? We told her it is because of Christ.
On a cold fall day, yet felt more like winter, Janet stopped by the streets to see what was happening. What she wanted to know more of was who the man in white was. Life seemed good for her but something was missing and she couldn't put a finger on it as to what that was.
At that moment I knew that God had allowed me to do the job that made the most sense in that evening: to free one of our empowered, local DRIME members to have a conversation in her native tongue that would bring a lost soul to Jesus, rather than me struggling along with my less-than-perfect Spanish.
These are small glimpses into what a person's willingness to have a spiritual conversations on the streets can make a change someone's life. Sometimes we simply plant a seed or change someone's view of Christianity, and we know that God continues to work in their lives long after we have a brief encounter with them.
Benjamin confessed that since giving his life to Christ he had not been living the way God would want him to: he was struggling with the desire to do things he knew were wrong because he was having difficulties in his life. But being with the DRIME team again and hearing about all that God had done, he realized that it was not by random chance that he first encountered the DRIME team.
We are so grateful to God for everything he has done in the past 20 years, and we want to celebrate that. We are throwing a party to mark this significant milestone in our history, and we're inviting all of our friends and supporters to celebrate with us!
I was barely five steps out of a drama when she rushed in front of me. “How do you know it’s real?” asked a frustrated looking woman who had been watching the dramas for quite some time.
As I’m looking back to these two weeks of my life and recalling my teammates perform dramas and talk to people on the streets, I learned that we all have a choice everyday to do things that will remain for eternity and those that have no impact on eternity. I have tasted the joy in seeking God’s kingdom and knowing that He takes care of the rest.
We gave her a little booklet that shared the Gospel in both English and Chinese. She began reading and didn’t take her eyes off of it the rest of the time that we sat with her.