Day 4
Friday, April 12, 9pm
10:22am
Its been wonderful to have more time than usual with the Lord in the mornings. Elisabeth and I have been closing and opening our days together with prayer and just giving the day and the Greeks over to the Lord. I am surely appreciating someone to pray with.
11:30am
Got to the square and set up the scripture sign got our gospels of John and prayed. Then we sang some hymns and Br. Logan quoted some scripture. The man that started the riot a few weeks ago was there but he did not have the support that he did then. He was yelling, trying to show Ben and David an awful magazine and trying to get the crowd riled up (Reminded me so much of Matt. 27:20) but many of the men that were there were pushing him away and closing his magazine. Br. Logan told us to just ignore him and not give him the attention he was wanting and Praise God this man, full of the devil backed away and quieted down. Both teams went up and down the street, went by the bus stop to hand out the gospel with a little pretzel tasting on the side. Elisabeth was smiling and trying to converse with a young lady her age. The lady was trying to tell her something in Greek and in frustration she told Elisabeth in broken English, “just go to your home!” Elisabeth just continued to smile and hand out the gospel. Well by and by we handed out almost 1000 gospels of John, then once 2:00pm came we prayed and parted ways. The Logans went to have family time while Br. Angelo took the teams to eat. The restaurant had a co-op washroom which we ladies did not realize until we saw two doors with lady’s heads and two doors with men’s heads. Thankfully we were the only ones in there. After lunch we spent an hour handing out the rest of gospels (approx. 200) then headed to The Ancient Forum of Thessaloniki. At this time the temp. has risen to +21 and the sun is beating down. (We are all quite pink and a little tender.)
On the way home we “needed” to stop at Starbucks for coffee. The one I had the night before at a local restaurant was a 2oz. cup with 1 oz. of mud. What a rip off so I did not want to take any chances today and Angelo was very accommodating and drove to get some real coffee 🙂
Bought some huge, huge strawberries, four litres for 5Euro (.76 euro for every $ so 5x.76=$3.80) Wow, they were good eating on the way home.
The devil had an awesome opportunity to send us to our Heavenly home this evening. A van was going to miss his turn off to Philippi so he thought he would cut us off just before and it got pretty exciting in the car but our Guardian Angelo did a fine job of yelling and asking for God’s help. Serving the Lord is always an adventure and is never boring. Br. Angelo said a few cm. we would have clipped him, he would have swerved into the guard rail and then bounced back onto us. We never saw it coming. How amazing is God’s love and protection!!
