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

hands and acted as if they couldn’t wait to take off and get as far away from the Christians as they could.

After all, these Christians had decided to come out from behind the four walls of the church building and invade their world with a radical demonstration of the love and power of Jesus. Right out in front of the courthouse, in the town square. Before the teenagers darted off, I confronted them again with a question they seemed to have a quick answer for. “How many of y’all are hungry?” Now they were getting excited. “I am. I am. Man, I haven’t eaten all day.” One thing I know about teenagers is, they are always hungry. I asked them who all wanted to go to a bar-b-q. It was unanimous. They had no idea what was in store for them. I told them, “Wait right here and I am going to send a van to pick you up and take you to the bar-b-q and you can eat all you want, then we will bring you back here to the square.” They all shouted, “Cool. Awesome. We’ll be here waiting.” Sarge and I jumped in his truck and headed to the church. Pastor Sarge and Barbara’s church, Maranatha Christian Fellowship, was having an amazing outdoor bar-b-q on the church parking lot that sweltering hot August afternoon. The grill had been fired up, cooking lots of burgers and hot dogs and church members were bringing lots and lots of great homemade food. Little did they know, the church bar-b-q outreach was about to take a whole new direction.

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