This village of 20,000 people does not see many foreigners. But of course, in keeping with Arab hospitality we were welcomed. After prayerwalking, the three teams met back up in the city centre for lunch. On the way out of the restaurant we gave each worker a Jesus film. A little later a couple ladies on the team thought it would be good to go back in to the restaurant and give the Jesus film to some young people who had been sitting next to our table. One of the restaurant workers, however, did not like this and ran them out shouting, "Muslim, muslim!"
But we were not dismayed. Earlier when we had been prayerwalking each team had been invited into a home. So after lunch we headed back to these places. I (Keri) had met a young lady who worked in a neighbourhood shop (bakkal). God no doubt placed her in my path because she spoke some English (very uncommon in this village). She accepted the Jesus film and gave me her e-mail address. The local believer we teamed with is going to have his wife do follow up. My team also had spent time in a family's home earlier while prayerwalking. We went back to the home to give them the Jesus film and a box of cookies with scripture on a piece of paper that the local believers use for outreach.
At this home, we once again were invited in to stay for awhile. Before we knew it, we were sitting in their home drinking pomegranate juice, sipping very strong arabic coffee and looking at wedding albums. Only the women were at home. The father and husband were working at their butcher shop. The women were so animated and so eager to interact with us. Thankfully we had the local believer to translate for us.
These opportunities of sharing life have given us more than an understanding of the Arab Muslims of Israel. It has given us a love for the moms, the dads, the babies, the butchers, the shopkeepers...Arab Muslims of Israel who do not know Christ.
Wrapping up our time in K'far Mando we all met up at the gate/entrance to the village. Half of the team stood on one side of the road, the other half on the other side. Each person had small bags with the Jesus film and we did some mass evangelism. How we did it was by offering passing cars the bag. Within a 10 minute period we had passed out close to 100 films. Then bam. We were stopped.
We weren't stopped by the police. We were stopped by two guys in a old white chevrolet. They approached S and the local believer and told them that there would be trouble. S told us to stop and get in the cars. We did and were about to drive off when S noticed the two guys were having their own trouble. Trouble with their car. S tried to help them battery jump but when that didn't work he drove one of the guys into town. While he was doing that, a few of our team along with R and the local believer interacted with the second guy.
The gospel was shared in many ways in that village. It was shared through the passing out of the Jesus film, prayerwalking, smiles, and random acts of kindness. All done in the name of Jesus and with the love of Christ.
We claim the promise that His Word does not go out void.
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Love how it all comes together in unexpected ways ...if we would just show up and step up. Great story.
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