Saturday, August 26, 2006

"FRIDAY NIGHT STREET CHURCH"

The night was awesome!!

The team consisted of Kim Dubash, Steve Ignowski and Eileen & I. We started in the Washington Garden Projects after not being there for the last two weeks. It was so good to see our friends again there. We were able to minister God's Word to many new people also in the area. We stopped by to see Pastor George Bostic of Deliverance Temple and the kids had already located us and were looking for goodies. We gave them kids snacks, chocolate chip cookies, pop, and juice. This little cutie (below) had her hand out wanting a "Jesus penny".
(Below) Eileen is with Stephanie, a mother of seven with no husband. We minster to her and her children on a regular basis. As is common in many places, there are not too many dads in the area.
(Below) Eileen plays with some of the kids of Washington Gardens. The kids love to see the RAVEN van coming down the road and we love to show God's love to the kids!!
After leaving Washington Gardens we headed for Louie & Kelly's parking lot. On arrival we found the parking lot loaded and people hanging around everywhere. Immediately the Lord gave us dominion over the area and many fell under conviction as we ministered to them. Steve and Kim ministered to a man that seemed very hard and he ended up weeping as they ministered God's Word. A regular named Julius fell under conviction as he saw the van pull into the parking lot. He tried to hide but I yelled out "Julius, Julius, how long are you going to let that devil run your life"?? Larry was wearing a shirt that had a huge cross on it and I immediately thought of Pastor Troy's comment to a cross wearing gentleman in Amsterdam where he yelled "hey preacher". I walked up on Larry and said "you must be a preacher with a cross that big" and Larry immediately fell under conviction. Eileen and I ministered to him for a long time and he knew that he was wrong and his party night was ruined. Walt asked if we would call RAVEN Anthong LeBlanc because Anthony had touched his life in a big way a few weeks ago. Below, Tianna with tears in her eyes dumps a 40 oz. in the trash can as she told us that we were telling her the exact same thing that her grandmother had told her recently. She said that us talking to her was confimation that God wants her to get her life in order and that she was all done with alcohol. PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!!
Kim and Steve tag team ministering to a lady that ended up coming back for more on Saturday.
We wrapped things up around midnight to prepare for Saturday's outreach in Elkhart with Jermaine Sanders. (Flow Fest) Eileen said that this night one one of the best in our soon to be 8 years in street ministry. We thank JESUS for calling us to be HIS servants!!!!

3 comments:

PASTOR TROY D. BOHN said...

Hey it is good to see the MidWest Raven Posse still keeping busy for the Kingdom of God while I am out of the country! Hallelujah! And especially nice to see Steve and Kim out in the mix! Be blessed my brothers and I hope that you are making plans to join me in Amsterdam next year!

Pastor Lance Prathaftakis said...

My brother and awesome Pastor, we are promoting RAVEN AMSTERDAM 2007 to the max. We are pumped and ready now. I have an idea for our shirts already that I wanted to run by you. One showing the "red light" and saying "Stop in the name of JESUS!!!

RAVEN Deb said...

Love those pennies!!!!! Man o Man you guys are out there taking Jesus to the lost. i may have to step up our SF outreach to two times a month. God bless you and i will definately have to join you out there sometime soon... i love you guys..