Mardi Gras 2009 continued

Mardi Gras is an opportunity to witness all sorts of evangelism. Literally several hundreds of Christians come from all over America. The fundamentalist are always there with their "your going to hell" and "Gods hates you" signs, they loudly read God is angry scriptures, and often get into heated screaming matches with drunk partiers, and then of course you have the "Jesus loves you" people with their signs and several handing out "get out of hell free card" tracts, and you got YWAMers doing friendship/relational evangelism. Of course I am a bit bias, I prefer the relational witnessing by far.

Now for another story. There is a man named Kat, who is a husband of a catholic tarot card reader in the quarter. Kat hates Christians, but Donavon (the YWAM Denver leader) was able to build a friendship with him last year and continued it this year.

Rick was a guy Donavon and some others met, Rick ask them if they knew of a homeless shelter. When I told them the shelter I knew of was shut down by the fire department, they felt bad because they really wanted to help Rick out, but ended up just praying for him. Well, there were some girls on the Denver team who were playing guitar on the street and shortly after the prayer over $90 was put in their guitar case by strangers, which was enough to get Rick a Motel room for the night. The next day Rick was hanging out Donavon when he went over to Kats house, and Kat said that Rick could stay at their place and that he would try to get him some work.

One thing that was really cool is how clear it was to Rick that God was showing his concern for him, it was evident that the Lord was doing a work in his life. Donavon also had some really good opportunities to speak into Kat's life. There are details I am leaving out. But yeah, I got spend time with Rick and Kat on Fat Tuesday. I love seeing God at work. :)

There were lots more people in around the Jackson Square this year, therefore, I gladly did not do any witnessing on Bourbon St. I took these pictures while quickly passing through an intersection, so you could get an idea of how packed Bourbon gets, in fact it gets far more crowded then this at night. It is absolutely disgusting! 1,000s of drunks staggering on a sea of beer, vomit, beads and garbage