One of the reasons that God has brought us to Brazil is to share the good news with a people group that we absolutely love----Brazilians....or so we thought! One particular day last week, God planned another sort of conversation for us!
While out and about in the city with our visiting friends from Illinois, I attempted to start a spiritual conversation with a man named Francisco. Francisco told me that he had walked away from his faith and his "religion" and that he really didn't have time anymore for Christ. He clearly didn't want to talk to me about Jesus.
I walked away with a heavy heart feeling very sad for Francisco and caught up with my husband, Jeff.
Jeff had met a young man named Alvin who DID want to talk about Christ! Alvin is already a believer, and is taking the next six months to travel to various countries in the world.
We spent the next several hours with Alvin. Alvin is from Indonesia and went to school in New York. He comes from a christian family and shared his testimony with us of how he came to be a Christ follower 7 years ago.
He also shared, however, that he has gotten a bit weak in his faith. I shared the gospel with him using the Evangecube and then he shared it back with us in indonesian and then again in English. He was quite taken with the cube and so we gave it to him and he was thrilled! He couldn't wait to take it home that night to share it with his unbelieving Brazilian friend that he is staying with!
He told us that it was really good to practice with the cube because it reminded him of who he is in Christ at a time in his life that he was weak! God brought the family of Christ into this young man's life to strengthen him as he was traveling alone in Brazil!
Pray that Alvin goes back to Indonesia, New York and wherever else in the world he travels with the Gospel of Christ!
Celebrating a brother strengthened in his faith,
Diane and Jeff
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