Day of Outreach

So here I am all the way across the country in Santa Cruz! I've been here for about three weeks and we have already seen God working in the city.  Every saturday night we are going to have some sort of outreach, last week I'm not going to lie I dreaded it and I felt that I wasn't cut out to do this kind of ministry.  As the day progressed today I started feeling this same dread and it showed on my emotions.  At the beginning of our outreach we were assigned to different parts of Santa Cruz and I said to myself  "as long as I'm not assigned to stay at the peter pan I will enjoy this experience." Well God must have been laughing at me because I was assigned to the peter pan area.  I felt like I could cry, I truly did not want to be there, little did I know that God was going to use me.  So I knew that this night was going to be miserable if I didn't suck it up.  So Casey, one of the guys that was in my group, and I began to pray together, and as I prayed I just prayed that the Lord would fill me with His joy, knowing I would not be able to be joyful on my own.  Right after that I just felt like this burden I was holding onto was lifted, and this might sound ridiculous or crazy, but I knew that my prayer had been answered, the Lord had filled me with His joy!  Our group prayed some more then we began to ask people walking by if they wanted to do a survey (we were using soularium) most turned us down.  But a group of about five people came by, the first thing out of one of the guys mouth was I want to take the survey if you don't mind that I'm high haha, so lets just say that it was an experience, but I just pray that they saw Christ through us.  So Brian and I decided to go to the other side of the road to try and engage in conversation with those people.  Well we meet this guy named Eridmus (not really sure how to spell opps) and I started to go through soularium with him, he didn't really catch what he was supposed to do so I just jumped ahead to the third question and asked what picture represent God to you? He said "what is this God you're talking about." WOW I was so taken back, right then I knew (I'm sure Brian did too) God put us right there to talk to Eridmus and share with him about our great God.  I pulled out the KGP booklet and together Brian and I went through it, sharing parts of our testimony and really showing Eridmus how much joy we had in our relationship for Christ.  Eridmus seemed to be really taking in what the Lord had to say through us! At the end he still had many questions so we knew he wasn't ready to accept Christ into his life, but we knew this wasn't the end of how God was going to work in his life.  So we got his contact information and invited him to dinner at the pan!  This night was so awesome, so many times we are so frustrated to share our faith seeing no results but we have to trust that God is using us to planting seeds in peoples lives.  "I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything but only God who makes things grow." 1 Corinthians 3:6-7