Evangelism

Nearly every Monday night spent in Pigeon Forge, TN was spent going out into the streets of either Pigeon Forge or Gatlinburg and sharing the gospel. I remember my first night quite vividly. My team had been assigned Patriot Park in Pigeon Forge, and we parked the car in front of the cute little shopping center opposite the park. I was freaking out and so were my teammates. I remember saying, "Let's just get back in the car and go back to the cabin." I was probably thinking, "We don't really need to do this." That was Satan speaking through fear but even though we were all scared, team leader Carolina was there to save the day, speaking II Timothy 1:7 to us. "For God has given us a spirit not of fear but of power, love, and self-control." Isn't that awesome? Here we all were, scared and freaking out about approaching strangers and sharing the gospel with them and God, always being ready to help us combat the devil, whips out that verse, reassures us and brings us into willing obedience to him.

Now ready for anything the world had coming for us my partner and I approached our first victim (just kidding), our first person who we would share our illustration, known as the Bridge, with. He was a man, probably around his early 30s sitting with his adorable child who was heartily enjoying a very colorful lollipop that was also all over his face. So we approached him saying, "Hi, my name is Kayla and this is my friend Eriona. We're going around asking people to give their opinion of an illustration of the main theme of the Bible. Can we show it to you and get your opinion?" My friend was actually the one sharing this time so she started going through Romans 6:23 with him. About half-way through our presentation, the man's father came out of the store and we soon learned that the father was a pastor. We were amazed. All this time we had been sharing the gospel with the son of preacher. They allowed us to finish our presentation and we learned that the son was saved. That night was very encouraging even though after that we got several rejections. Each week it got easier but there were always those butterflies that refused to relent.

Now that I'm back on campus I wanted to put to use everything that I had learned over STP and for the past two weeks now my friend and I have been going out together once a week and sharing the bridge together. I can't wait to see what God has in store for us for the rest of the semester!