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Day 10, Sept 30in30

Tracting meets a bottleneck.

How do you evangelise without leaving the house all day?
What if you didn't need to go out neither feel like going out?

Hmm...

Most probably can't.

Admitting defeat to God gave me great strength to put on a thick jacket and venture out into the cold for a night walk. I thank God for a like-minded brother who in my weakness is able to encourage me towards God's strength. In plain English speak, he came along for the little stroll with his portion of tracts :)

1. Sally:
At first, we walked around in the cold without a single person in sight. Imagine our delight when 2 girls appeared out of nowhere walking towards us on the other side of the road.

Thinking that it's now or never, I started to cross the street. As I approach closer, Chinese dialect come into ear as one of the girl talks audibly into the mobile. “This is for you," I offered in Chinese. "Ah?” Replied Sally who wasn't on the phone.

"So, have you guys been shopping?" I asked, pointing to bags of groceries,

"Yeah, just a little" Said Sally.

More talks led me to discover that they’d both just arrived from China 3 days ago. Sally also mentioned that she used to believe in Jesus for a period of time along with her grandma.

"Do you mind me asking why you stopped believing?" I said,

"Because they moved away." She replied.

Explaining to her that nothing stops her from believing again and perhaps it’s God’s work that we met each other, she seemed interested in visiting CYPG. I extended the invitation once again, she then asked how to get to our church by bus so I offered to drive them. She was happy and said that if her friend is willing to go, she’ll contact me.

2. Candy:
At IGA I gave another tract to an Asian girl walking by herself.

"I've received this before!" She said, a little amazed.

"REEAAALLY?" MORE amazed than her for sure!

"Yeah really, at Curtin Uni back in July. I read the first few pages but couldn't really understand, can you explain it to me?" She asked.

Amazing. God is Amazing.

Explained to her what the tract is about, invited her to Friday Y180 but unfortunately she has a lot of assessments this month thus won't be free until October. Candy also shared some of the struggles she's currently facing being away from her family so I offered my help if she ever needs any. In the end we agreed to catch up for coffee/dinner once she's finished her assignments.

I gave her my mobile number but in my carelessness it was the old Optus number which was cancelled few years ago. Upon realising my mistake (1 hour too late), I rang that number to ask the current owner if anyone had called. I was greeted with a message bank and my heart sank right to the bottom. In desperation I prayed for God's forgiveness and help. Knowing this is the will of God as He is not willing that any should perish, I prayed for God to allow our paths to cross again; either myself or other Christians as long as God reaches to her. I also told my brother what had happened.

The next day he asked me to guess who he met today.

"Dunno" I said, disinterested.

Showing me Candy’s mobile number on his phone I was left speechless. “Wha? How? Who? Why? When? TELLLL MEEEEE!” Interest level suddenly went through the roof.

He bumped into her at Curtin library, remembering what I’d done, he said hi and told her my mistake - unfortunately She was in a hurry to leave so my brother asked her what was wrong.

“I left my electronic dictionary in the last lecture, it’s really expensive...”

Picking up her obvious distress my brother accompanied her to the lecture room but there was a lesson going on. He entered into the room and announced his intentions to which the lecturer asked him to wait till the class is over. Suddenly someone inside the room stood up and asked if he’s looking for this, holding up a small electronic devise.

Candy was overjoyed having found the electronic dictionary; she said she’s really glad bumping into him.

“It’s okay, don’t worry about it... but... CAN I HAVE YOUR PHONE NUMBER??”

Hehe, official path-crossing point :)

On Day 11, Sept 30in30, I learnt that serving God can't be dreamt from sitting in a chair. Our participation is needed to testify the gospel of the grace of God. Like what Gav said, “I couldn’t have planned this even if I tried”,

It could only mean one thing:

ALL glory to God!