This happened yesterday and here is how I remember the conversations:

On the mainstreet here in Kaitaia I am approaching two backpackers I have never met. They are from Germany and we are getting to talk about the spiritual condition in Germany. I find out that the two are not having any connection with the church whatsoever. Also the parents of both are still alive and they are also without any church affiliation.

The two – male and female – are very good to talk to and I really got to like them during that short time very much. I told them what the Lord put in my heart to tell them. The young man told me, that he found a German Bible at one of the places where he stayed and he had decided to read the Bible. I told him to start with the Gospel of John. I explained to him that the Bible, the Word of the Living God, has two parts, the Old Testament and the New Testament, and that the Gospel of John is the book number four in the New Testament. In the course of our conversation I mentioned that I did not want to keep them…. But the young man thanked me for the conversation when I left them.

NEUSEELAND,  DAS “LAND DER TRAEUME”.

(For Germans)

A little further on the road I ran into one of our church people and I mentioned what happened with the backpackers from Germany. She told me, that she picked up a hitchhiker late one day and because it was late and his hands were very cold she had him for a night at her place – he was from Canada, I think – and told him about the Lord Jesus Christ.

We finished our meeting something like this: I said, “We can read the Bible and joy comes into our heart, we can pray and joy comes into our heart — but the greatest joy comes into our heart when we tell others about the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Have you experienced that JOY?