Our day began with a study of Acts 10 and a reminder that God's grace is wide and expansive including those who were once enemies of God (like Saul in the previous chapter) and those who were once outsiders (like the Gentiles represented by Cornelius in Acts 10) and still that wide and expansive grace of God can only be accessed through the person and in the name of Jesus Christ.
Our original plans involved street evangelism in downtown Boston. However, because of the events of yesterday, we decided to visit a neighboring borough of Boston called Dorchester.
We arrived in the neighborhood to find the streets empty of children. Nevertheless, we gathered together to pray and ask that God would bring at least 30 children from the surrounding homes and apartments to hear the gospel. We set up our paint board and began to circulate through the park. By God's grace, we had the opportunity to present a gospel presentation to about 20 children. After the presentation, children who wanted to learn more about God were invited to meet one-on-one with the PCA students. For about 20 minutes individual children were taught of their sinfulness, their need for a Saviour and how Jesus Christ took the punishment for their sins on himself at the cross.
After our time in Dorchester, we traveled to Chelsea where we were yesterday. We continued where we left off yesterday with our second day of kids club for the children of this neighborhood. We we were able to teach them the story of Tower of Babel and through that to point them to God's desire for all peoples of the world to turn from their sin and find forgiveness of sins in his son, Jesus Christ. We were so encouraged to see kids return from yesterday and many new kids came today. The park was full of people, which added to the overall excitement.
All students are well. We are largely unaware of the developments with the incidents of yesterday because we are avoiding too much media. However, we continually lift up the victims in our prayers.
Our original plans involved street evangelism in downtown Boston. However, because of the events of yesterday, we decided to visit a neighboring borough of Boston called Dorchester.
We arrived in the neighborhood to find the streets empty of children. Nevertheless, we gathered together to pray and ask that God would bring at least 30 children from the surrounding homes and apartments to hear the gospel. We set up our paint board and began to circulate through the park. By God's grace, we had the opportunity to present a gospel presentation to about 20 children. After the presentation, children who wanted to learn more about God were invited to meet one-on-one with the PCA students. For about 20 minutes individual children were taught of their sinfulness, their need for a Saviour and how Jesus Christ took the punishment for their sins on himself at the cross.
After our time in Dorchester, we traveled to Chelsea where we were yesterday. We continued where we left off yesterday with our second day of kids club for the children of this neighborhood. We we were able to teach them the story of Tower of Babel and through that to point them to God's desire for all peoples of the world to turn from their sin and find forgiveness of sins in his son, Jesus Christ. We were so encouraged to see kids return from yesterday and many new kids came today. The park was full of people, which added to the overall excitement.
All students are well. We are largely unaware of the developments with the incidents of yesterday because we are avoiding too much media. However, we continually lift up the victims in our prayers.
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