Volunteers Spreading the Gospel
One of the volunteer groups that came to work along side us sharing the Gospel among the lost of our city found themselves in an industrial area with many blue collar businesses. A man from an auto parts store called out to them and asked who they were and what they were doing in the neighborhood. They told him that they wanted to get out of the tourist areas and meet genuine Turkish people. He called for a table and chairs to be brought out to the sidewalk and asked the team to sit down and have tea. They sat and immediately tea was ordered. He also asked a young man to act as translator as they sat and shared tea. After an hour of tea and conversation, the group offered the man a Pisidian Packet with a Bible and 2 evangelistic DVDs. The man gladly accepted. As they were leaving, the man thanked the group for coming and thanked them for the gift.
Another volunteer group was riding on a tram talking when one of the group members noticed a young man staring intently at them. After a few minutes he asked the Turkish man if he understood English. He replied, “Yes, I speak English. I just returned from an English camp in Greece where I represented Turkey in a debate club.” They began talking with the young man who was headed to Spain in a few months. The volunteer asked if he knew anything about Christianity. He said no, but that he would like to learn more. The man shared a Pisidian kit with him and told him to watch the videos and read the Bible before he went to Spain. He promised that he would read the entire Bible and watch both disks before his trip.
A volunteer team who was participating in their eighth Pisidian Project trip asked to return to a restaurant which they had visited on a previous trip. When the group entered the restaurant, they thought the recognized one of the waitresses, but were not sure. After the meal, the volunteer and a female worker went up to the waitress and asked if she was there a year ago. She said no, that she was new, but that her sister worked there before. They talked with her for a few minutes and soon there were 2 waitresses and 2 cooks gathered around them. They asked if the former waitress had talked about receiving a Bible from some Americans before. “Yes, she did tell us about it, and she showed it to us.” The team asked if they would like Bibles also. All four of them replied that they too would like a Pisidian Packet. All together the two groups distributed 137 Pisidian Packets.
