"Street Ministry - Learning Curve".

For my blog readers who may not know, we have started our own discipleship ministry!
(You can view our website here: Ravensvoiceministries).

I won't elaborate on that here as a simple visit to our ministry site would make any comments redundant (as this Blog has been incorporated there).

What I do want to share is one aspect of our ministry, that being street ministry.
This past weekend marked our second foray into street evangelism. This has been an exciting journey for us as it has also been a challenging one.

One of our main motivations for street ministry has been Healing, and simply engaging with the public at large in attempts to share christ, as well as an opportunity to offer discipleship for those interested.

View of downtown Holland Michigan.

We have seen some miracles take place even on our first attempts. There was one in particular where a young man with four broken knuckles received healing - much to both of our surprises! It is not that we were in doubt on God's power to heal, or that we lacked faith, for we seen others healed before but the reality that God would move through us - in that environment - took us by surprise. We prayed for many others and most people that we approached were receptive and all were polite regardless.

For this second outing we had split into two teams, our family as "team one" and another couple ministering as "team two". For us things went a little differently. The very first person we approached, a woman who was scheduled to have knee surgery the following week; was hesitant to have us pray. After a little persuasion on our part she relented once we prayed she was surprised to have all her pain disappear! Unfortunately the hesitation we experienced with her marked much of our encounters. We did however meet more than a few people from out of town who were fellow believers and commended us for what we were doing which was encouraging.

All in all we have much to still learn, and sadly there are few to glean from. but we know that as God goes with us we needn't despise the small beginnings.

Luther.