You Never Know Who You'll Run into On the Street....

We serve such a creative God!  We often enter into a work thinking that God is going to do “such and such”, and so we make plans based on this....last night was no exception....

We left the house at 9:30 p.m. to go visit our transvestite friends who work near our home.  The objective is to further our friendships and be the light of Christ in this dark place.  We prayed beforehand that God’s love would be evident in us and felt by them.  

Shortly after arriving and starting a conversation with Michele, who is probably the most kindhearted man out in that area, a car pulled up next to us.  We assumed that it was a customer of Michele’s, but  a young woman got out of the car with a big smile on her face and she ran over to give Diane a hug,  Diane quickly realized it was “Mary”.  

Mary is a young woman that Diane has been reaching out to at a local store.  Mary shared with us that as she drove by us with her husband,  she saw Diane.  She told her husband to stop the car because she knew Diane and that something good must be happening in this place if Diane is there at this hour of the night!!  What a statement God used us to make by showing Mary and her husband what we are about.  Walk the talk as they say!

30 minutes later as we were talking with Bianca (another transvestite friend), about the usual stuff, sex change operations, hormone injections, etc.,   I looked up and here was a man on a bicycle that I recognized!

It was a Christian buddy that I had not seen for 2  years or so.  We hugged and talked 100 miles an hour in the first minutes, then he realized where we were and became shocked.  I quickly introduced him to Bianca---once again, what a way to show others what God is about in our lives!

It probably was a little like the experience the disciples had when they returned to find Jesus talking to the woman at the well.  You never know who you are going to run into and where!  God uses all things!

Please continue to pray that as we reach out to these men on the street, God continues to go before us and work in the beautiful ways that He works!

Blessed to be going into the darkness with the light of Christ here in Rio,

Jeff and Diane