First time on the streets with my church

To begin with "While going out on the streets..." didn't seem to be the right beginning. I should probably tell you first that our church seems to not have been very successful in growing these last few years. In fact some people even left the church or simply, don't come regularly. This fact saddens my heart. This fact has also showed me that our previous "Outreaches" outside the church have not been very successful. Nevertheless, like I've said, this new "method" or what I like to call it "lifestyle”, namely the soul winning gospel script, seems to be more efficient and it does bring growth to the church. So far in our church I don't know of any growth (membership wise) but I do know that we've been seeing a lot of new faces on Sundays. I believe that’s' because of what I'm about to tell you about.

Now, going back a few weeks to Pentecost Monday. This was the first (more organized) time my church went out on the streets to try out the script. We were a group of about 50 people and after a morning of training with Jana most of us went downtown Zurich to go tell people about the gospel and to lead them into a prayer of salvation. I thought this was going to be easy and I was all fired up and encouraged. Well those two things never did fully leave that afternoon, but I was challenged. Jana had put me into a leader position and that put me under a lot of pressure. Yet I kept holding on to the truth that God would never put me through a situation I couldn't handle. In fact that truth is probably one thing that has helped me the most during the last few months.

I didn't quite understand what my job was. This scared me a little because I didn't know what to do. That didn't stay a problem for very long because people started asking me if they could watch me use the script once. That was easy enough, I thought. And so I had two or three people behind me (including my grandmother) and I went up to the first couple (in German of course): "Excuse me but, has anyone ever told you that God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life?" To my joy and disappointment somebody from our team had already spoken to them.

To my relief, after that short conversation, I had already convinced some people on how to begin and they went on, on their own without me, which was great since they understood what was supposed to happen. But one particular lady still wasn't sure what exactly to do and so I continued to show her. The next few people I spoke to had also already been confronted with the script.

Then finally, I began talking to a middle aged grown-up man (I know that sounds weird but hey, everyone needs to hear about God's love, or not?). This man was very kind and he happily prayed with me to receive Christ. In the script the prayer begins with: "Dear Lord Jesus..." and I just want to tell you that every time I talk with someone about the script and I hear the words: "Dear Lord Jesus." my heart leaps for joy and I sometimes think it even skips a beat! By the time they say: "Amen." I can just hear in my heart how Heaven's rejoicing over a lost sheep being found by its shepherd, Jesus. That was the first person I had lead to the Lord that day and I just didn't want to stop telling people about Jesus and about his sacrifice on the cross for or sins.

The next people that prayed with me were two young girls, 11 and 12 years of age. They were adorable and I can't wait to see them in heaven some day! For some reason, the lady that was still coming with me didn't understand this whole thing and so eventually she left. But, those two girls sitting by the lake will always leave an impact in my life, they were the first kids I had the privilege of praying with.

I know I've been telling you of the times when it turned out good and the people prayed with me but, there were lots of moments of rejection too. Still, the first thing to remember if you get rejected because you're preaching the Gospel, you CANNOT take it personally. If I had taken the rejections I've received personally, then I would simply be heart broken. Instead, I see it as a joy to be persecuted for my faith. But what gives so much joy as well is that  lot of the time if the person isn't willing to pray the prayer of salvation with me then at least I was able to pray for them. Because, if they let you read the scriptures, then usually they'll let you pray for them. Another comfort might be is that even though they might have not wanted to "convert", they still did hear the truth, the gospel of Jesus Christ. And let me tell you if a 15 year old girl walks up to you and wants to tell you about God's love, they won't forget that acquaintance too easily.

I want to share another short story of that day with you. At this point I was out with my Dad and boy was he surprised at how bold I was and I kept telling him: "It's not my boldness, dad, it's Christ in me." We came across this young lady (maybe mid 30). She had a child in a stroller with her and looked as though she could definitely use Christ in her life. And so I walked up to her and asked her and asked her my favorite question: "Has anyone ever told you that God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life?" No one had ever told her. Can you imagine that! It still shocks me to see how many people don't know of God's love for them and most of us just sit in church while holding a grudge against the person sitting in front of us because their head is so tall we can't see the Pastor! I mean seriously! The world is broken and most Christians don't even want to hear about it! So always, it was just amazing to pray for that lady because I just felt God's peace come over me and I knew she was ready to pray with me and so she did. If I had to describe her in before and after words it would be 'Depression' and 'Jesus'. I could see the change in her face, in the way she spoke! That was proof enough for me that Jesus now lives in her heart and he will continue to do the work in her life I can't because it happens to be that she was only visiting Zurich for that one day and was going to leave the next day back to home (can't remember where that is but definitely far away).

I believe that day was a complete success and Heaven's rejoicing over each soul that was saved that day. In fact we know that it was exactly 91 souls. Glory to God! BTW: Thanks for reading so much. I hope it was worth it. It came straight from my heart.

Basel needs to be saved too!

This blog starts out with me introducing one of my dearest friends to you. Her name is Jana Pauls and she was born in Kasachstan in 1988, she is 23 years young. I've already mentioned her in a blog. She is such a Jesus freak and that's a good thing. She graduated from the River Bible Institute in Tampa, Florida in 2010. She knows a lot about soulwinning and so my father, pastor of a church in Zurich, decided to invite her to Switzerland to teach us how to reach the people of Switzerland with the script. And so she came last friday and has been staying at home with us for the two weeks she's here. I have had the privalege of being her Personal Assistant (P.A.). It's been so much fun!
Anyways, her first soulwinning destination was Basel and I of course went with her. The day was a succcess! We went out with a group of about 15 locals, 18 people prayed with us. It was the first time that they used this method to evangelize and I think they were all surpised that people actually pray with you!
That day I prayed with two people and I know heaven was rejoicing! The one lady I spoke with was from Great Britain and I didn't have an english script with me. So, I translated the German on the spot and she actually prayed with me. Seeing her smile made my day and it was another challenge I was able to grow in. The other person was a young guy, maybe a bit older than me. The reason I talked to him was because he seemed interrested in what Jana was telling this other guy. I took my chance and was able to pray wiht him to receive Jesus. It was a great day and it gave me hope for Switzerland and even though my main focus was on Zurich I saw that Basel too, needs to see the Light of the World.

Adliswil, hard but not undoable

This is something I wrote down the day when we went out to Adliswil:


"We went out on the streets of Adliswil, a suburb of Zurich. We were a group of 7 people and we had a desire to reach out and to get some of the harvest in. Now by the end of the day, 14 people had prayed the prayer from the soul winning script. We were out for about 1 and a half hour. Switzerland is very hard to reach, we came to understand that more today. They are very closed and refuse to even listen to us simply because they grew up with all this religion and people trying to convince them of the truth. Just like in any other place of the world, the people are hurting and hurting bad. Nevertheless, we went out and talked to a number of people. We were able to hand out many things such as a tiny copy of the gospel of John with a copy of a prayer of salvation. I believe that God will continue to work in the lives of his people here."


That day, I was the one showing people how to use the script. It was a big challenge, but I knew that God wouldn't give me something to do if I couldn't handle it. That day I learned to trust God with things I thought were impossible. I've been clinging to that truth ever since then and it's helped me a lot!

My first time on the streets

It was an early tuesday afternoon at the ministers conference in Laax, Switzerland and a long meeting had just finnished. My friend Jana came up to me and asked me if I would like to go outside and try the script out. I was just about to throw the idea out of my mind because I knew I couldn't do it alone. But God had something in store for me. So of course I said "Yes! I'd love too!"  That's how it started.
We finally went outside and saw a group of teenagers outside a bus. She said "Why don't we start with a group?" I went along with whatever she said :) By the time we reached them, they had gotten into the bus. So Jana decides to go in the bus and talk to all the teens in there! I estimated around 30 people in the bus. All she did was read the script with confidence and meaning. In the end of the script, there is a prayer of salvation. Four young teenagers prayed with her in front of their friends! That really touched me!
She said that I needed to do the next ones. This meant to speak to two ladies standing at the bus stop talking. I walked up and asked the first question: "Has anyone ever told you that God loves you and had a wonderful plan for your life?" Sadly, I can't remember what they answered. But, I do know that they accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior. One of the girls even had teary eyes. Praise God for growing his kingdom of Glory!
I still remember the exact place where I prayed with a young teenage girl from Bern to receive Christ. She was very excited and extremely sweet! She thanked me and I gave her a script to talk about it with her friends, she proudly accepted the offer and we went seperate ways.
The highlight of the day were two elderly men walking up the hill. After we prayed together, they were so elated to know now that they are on their way to heaven! The one guy said something like: "I know that I am very close to going to heaven. I know I will see Jesus and heaaven soon and I'm so glad to know I'm going there and not to hell." Both men believed they were on their way heaven because they're nice people and lived a good life. I was able to show them that the bible says that we have eternal life because of the gift of Jesus, God's own son. Again they thanked us, such pretty young ladies for opening the way to heaven for them. We gave each of them a script for them to tell their families. We left them with a "God bless you!"
Do you see what happenned there? Imagine how it impacted me to have shared my faith with some people that day and to have 5 people pray with me! Imagine that! God reached out to them through ME! It still overwhelmes me to write or think about it! If you ever get the chance to tell people about Jesus, and believe me you do everytime you see someone, DO IT! You don't need to be afraid! You have the courage of GOD! Obey him and go out and preach the Gospel to every creature because that is what Jesus told you to do!

Why is it about saving souls?

First of all, I wanna say thank you for reading this. I've wanted to do something like a blog for a while now and I was finally convinced to do one on how I was changed by talking  to strangers about Jesus and the love of God. So far it has impacted me a lot but I will talk about that more in other posts.
I was convinced, by Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne, that going out and reaching out to people is exactly what Jesus tells us to do in Mark 16:15"He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation."  Jesus tells us specifically that we need to preach the Gospel to ALL creation. And so Pastor Rodney was introducing a very successful method of presenting the Gospel in a simple way. They call it the Soul Winnig Script and trust me, it DOES WORK!
That weekend in my church, I was touched by God and convicted and convinced that I needed to start harvesting souls for the kingdom of God. I had thought that the weekend alone was the highlight of my springbreak but God had more in store for me. The same Pastor was the guestspeaker for that year at my Fathers' anual European Faith Ministers Gathering. I got to spend another 3 days learning and listening and especially, changing. I had no idea that I could go up to strangers and tell them that God loves them and has a wonderful plan for their life. 
On the first night, the pastor called me up front to tell the ministers there how I had been touched the past weekend. It was very much my pleasure to share my changing heart with them. I had incuded that I was eager to go out on the streets and see for myself if this soul winning script  actually works. A now dear friend to me named Jana, was the one who took me out the next day and together 10 peoples lives were extended into eternity with the almighty God. She was the one to show me and explain to me how to react and she encouraged me to just reach out to them and see them as God's loved lost sheep. It worked! I still am overwhelemed and just full of joy when I think about them.
I will continue to post specific examples of times when I was able to pray with some people because I have this wonderful thing called the soul winning script. If you are more interrested in what this thing is that I am talking about, then go to revival.com and check out the soulwinning tools. THEY REALLY DO WORK!