Street Stories - A Ringside Seat To Over 4 Decades Of Taking Jesus To The Streets Of The World

Our last morning in Haiti, we loaded up our PA system, guitars, and our eight-foot cross and set out for what was by far the worst, most dangerous corner in Port-au-Prince. We prayed Psalm 91 over our team as we approached the area. When we got near the busy corner where three streets merged, we could see UN troops and Haitian police searching cars that had been pulled over. We could see machine guns drawn, men laid out on the ground in handcuffs and occasionally we could hear gunfire from cars and trucks as they passed through this check point. Right at this corner of activity was an abandoned BP gas station that we decided would be a perfect place to set up our PA system, play guitars and worship and open-air preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. So, within the shadows of the military and police check point, we parked our van on the vacant BP gas station parking lot so we could have some church. As we were setting up our street service, a Sergeant in full military and riot gear approached me. He gave us a stern command. The Sergeant said, “Get off this street. You can’t be out here. It’s too dangerous.” I replied to him, “We are just going to set up here and sing about Jesus and preach the Gospel.” Once again, he shouted even more firmly, “Get off this corner. You can’t be out here.” We street preachers are called to be in the middle of where the action is. This is what we were born to do.

So, once again I told him we were going to have church out on that BP gas station corner. I assured him

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