Good day all:
We had a really good time yesterday on our Philippi journey. The ruins were interesting to see, and so was the place where Lydia was baptized (Acts 16), but the real joy was in witnessing and tract distribution.
Our first encounter was with a catholic nun who approached Bernard to inquire where he is from. As it turned out, the nun is from Baltimore, Maryland. The other nuns are from Ukraine and Argentina. The conversation went very well until Angelo and Bernard began to witness to her. Angelo told her of his glorious conversion, and she told of her hope which is in her works and Christ. Bernard asked her if her faith is in the scripture, tradition or both; she said both. You would have thought she was sitting on an ant pile, the way she began to squirm when she was being witnessed to.
After we departed the water side, we ducked into the adjacent Orthodox church which, as far as we could tell is there for show only. After that, we traveled to Kavala to eat lunch. Kavala is a very beautiful town on the mountain side and on the sea coast. We ate lunch in a divinely appointed spot. We invited the man and woman who run the business to sit with us and talk. They were happy to accommodate us. Once we exchanged pleasantries, we began to tell them of our great God and savior, Jesus Christ. They were very glad we had come by and told them, for they had never before heard such things as were expounded unto them that day. Although I do not recall their names, God knows who they are. Please pray for them.
After we departed Kavala, we stopped for gas about 40 kilometers down the road. We remembered that on the way to Philippi we had seen many small villages and how we would really like to go and visit one of them. Well, after we filled the tank, we up the mountain to a very quaint little town. As we drove up the narrow one car street, we passed by the town’s people who were out in number. Once we reached the top of the town, we could no longer refrain ourselves; we had to give those people the gospel. Therefore, as we descended Dan and Bernard jumped out gave gospel tracts to all the people who were out and about. What a grand time we had doing that!
