By Randy Siever

[photopress:randy_siever_1.jpg,thumb,alignright]I had a great email conversation with a guy in my church (Sparks Christian Fellowship in Sparks Nevada) named Dave. He is part of our Doable Evangelism Practice Group. Our recent assignment was to do an OA (Ordinary Attempt) and then report on our experience. This is an edited version, which he agreed would be good to pass along as an educational moment. My concern continues to be that this new paradigm of ordinary evangelism is so simple that almost everybody misses the point. Dave allowed me to “coach” him in how to “keep it simple” so with Dave’s blessing, I submit the following example:

From: Dave
Sent: Sun 12/11/2005 8:07 PM
To: Randy Siever
Subject: OA

Morning Randy….After church Debbie and I had a little time to kill before doing the Angel tree wrapping. So I decided to go to In & Out for a Burger to bring back. I decided to take the back streets down (which I never do) and went by the post office. Well I saw the guy selling news papers eating out of a McDonald’s bag. I said to myself. Its cold I can at least buy him a cup of coffee. I did, I put the Scripture slip that was in Sunday’s bulletin in the bag, gave this to the paper guy and told him it was from Jesus, bought a paper , tipped him and said a small prayer.

Have a great day
Dave

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by Rose Swetman

Marilyn is interested in investigating faith/spirituality and asked if she could attend church with her friend, Dee who about 18 months prior decided to become a committed follower of Jesus through our church.

The second Sunday Marilyn attended church the message was on the spiritual practices of fasting and prayer. We’d already decided that as a church we were going to participate in a community fast and prayer time for three days. After listening to the message and also being moved by the music that day, Marilyn told her friend she was going to fast with our community. Read the rest of this entry »