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SUNDAY, October 30
1 Thessalonians 2:9-13. We proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
Years ago there was a large evangelism conference with several hundred people in attendance. There were workshops and seminars scheduled so that the participants could experience a variety of tools and resources on how to share and spread the faith.
One of the attendees was a young woman named Maria who came from Africa. During one of the workshops at which Maria was present, there was an open forum. Some of those participating knew about Maria and also about the phenomenal growth of Christianity in many parts of Africa, her homeland included. So they asked her how evangelism was done in her country, given how successful it seemed to be there. They wanted to know what tools Africans used to evangelize.
Maria stood up and said hesitantly, “Well, we don’t have workshops and conferences in my country. We are too poor. But what we do is ask one or two Christian couples from one of our villages to go and live in another village that is not Christian. When the people see how our people live, how kind and loving and caring they are, they begin to ask questions. Soon they become Christian as well.”
That’s proclaiming the good news of Christ!
PRAY for the Diocese of Toronto (Ontario, Canada)
Ps 107:1-7, 33-37 and Joshua 3:7-17—OR— Ps 43 and Micah 3:5-12; Matthew 23:1-12
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