Today we were at Bridgeton Life Church in the center (centre) of Glasgow. It was one of the best days of ministry I have seen in a long time. The day started with some staying back at the church to do construction on the building. Bridgeton Life is a new church but is housed in a church built 130 years ago, with giant arched ceilings and stainned glass windows. So there was much work that could be done. The Pastor, Paul, had a goal of us painting one of his children's classrooms. I am excited to say we were able to paint 2 rooms, and it took all day. The first room was tackled by Bryan, Jeremy, and Dillon. The three of them dilligently painted most of the day, Bryan and Jeremy didnt stop painting until after 9pm. Billy and myself started working in the other room, it took half the day to spackle all the holes in the wall. After we spackled, a group of people sanded all the walls, preparing them for paint. It was around 5pm that Esther, Caroline, and Jenna started painting this 30x10 foot room. They too didnt finish until 9pm. My favorite part was they didnt want to get paint on them (they had to paint the ceilings) so they put on trash bags to protect their clothes. The majority of the team took 2000 flyers and tons of tracts into the city. The flyers promoted Dakota and his scooter outreach, as well as our concert in the evening. At 5pm the church put on a giant potluck dinner for us, many of us had authentic Scottish food, but sadly no haggis. At 7pm we began our Night of Worship. The service lasted 2 1/2 hours because God wanted us to keep going. There was times of song, times of messages, Dillon shared his testimony. It was a great, great service. We also began our quilt ministry, and I asked Donna and Joanne to share a story of a person they came acorss that day:
6 Aug 2008, Bridgeton. (quilt
Edgar "John" was sitting in his wheelchair framed by his doorway, with mere stubs from his calves down. JoAnne and Donna approached with Life Church invitationion in hand. John's warm welcoming smile masked decades of pain and lonliness. John shared that his "born again" sister, who is now declared, had shared the gospel message with him, but that she had turned her back on him early on. After chatting and hearing his story he allowed Donna to share the message of God's love and the gospel message of faith in Christ Jesus' free gift of salvation. John was fearful that he;d know no one in heaven as his only friends were drinking buddies and "the Bottle" was his only (we're takinig off now, so you will have to hear the end of the story later...)
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