One of our congregants is a teacher in a bilingual elementary school here in Abbotsford and she told me this story that happened in the staff lunch room of the school. As they were eating on Monday at noon, they were discussing the fact that there were lots of white T-shirted people all over the city handing things out to people. One lady, a vice-principal (not a Christian), began to gush over the fact that at one intersection she was offered a Coke and she kept expecting the person to preach at her and she remarked that it was amazing that there "were no strings attached--it was wonderful"! She just kept saying how amazing it was that her suspicions about them going to give a sermon along with the handout were unfounded because they were doing it for free. One other teacher made a negative comment about some kids not being safe at an intersection. The woman vice principal jumped in again as our advocate saying "oh no, I stopped and saw the instruction sheets these people were operating with and they were quite specific how not to be preachy and how to be safe" and then she re-iterated her amazement at the grace shown her. The Christian teacher who told me this was just smiling inside and praising God for the good outreach!

 

Some Love Abbotsford participants saw a girl with a young boy sitting on a bench. She was crying, for her boyfriend and son's father was in a recovery home and he couldn't leave, since for him it was either the home or jail. After talking for a while, she asked Jesus into her life that Saturday afternoon! They brought her to the Love Abbotsford worship celebration outside at Mill Lake that evening and to church on Sunday, where she was again prayed for. They also went with her to see her boyfriend in the recovery home to tell him the news about Jesus!