Check out this cool story from guest blogger, Pastor Kasey Pupeza:
God totally blew my mind yesterday!! Here’s the story:
It started at Twirl. (Pastor Kelly’s event for the women of The Crossing and their friends). At the end of Pastor Kelly’s talk she challenged the women of The Crossing to ask Jesus into their lives for the first time, recommit to following him, or to come up front for prayer. Probably around 50-75 women stepped forward for prayer. It was so cool to watch these brave women step forward and ask their Heavenly Daddy to give them freedom! After we prayed for these women we handed them a little booklet to help them identify the next steps in their faith. Inside the booklet was a post-it note. We asked them to write their name and phone number on it so a pastor could call them and follow up. The women who filled out the post-it then stuck it to the window in the back of the auditorium.
As if God moving in radical ways at Twirl wasn’t enough, what you’ll read next is how God was really showing off:
As I write this, it’s the day after Twirl. I took all these post-it’s home and began to call through them. I get to this one post-it written by a girl named “Allie”. (That’s what we’ll call her anyway) I called her and here’s kind of how my script went; “Hi, is this Allie? Hi Allie this is Pastor Kasey from The Crossing Church. I’m calling you today because last night you went to Twirl, and I first just wanted to say thank you so much for coming, and I hope you had a great time.”
She hasn’t said a word yet. “And second, I just wanted to see if I could help you to figure out the next step in your faith. Did you make a commitment to follow Jesus for the first time last night or were you recommitting?”
Finally Allie spoke, “I wasn’t at Twirl last night."
Um. OK.
She added, "My mom probably wrote my name down on something.”
I said, “OK?? Well, have you ever been to The Crossing before?” She said, “A couple of times.” My next question was, “Do you live in Elk River or anywhere close?” She said, “No, I don’t live anywhere.”
So I just kept digging. She admitted to me she is an addict who doesn’t have custody of her kids and that she is indeed homeless. She then inquired about making a commitment to follow Jesus. We talked for a while about what it meant to follow Christ. I asked her if she was ready to do that right now over the phone. She started sobbing and said that she was ready to ask Jesus to forgive her sins and lead her life. I asked her to go somewhere more quiet because she was visiting her kids at a family member’s house, and they were pretty noisy. She did. I asked her to get down on her knees, and had the privilege of leading her through a prayer as she asked Jesus into her heart for the very first time.
Personally, this was one of the most awesome experiences of my life! It was way beyond cool to see how God was using people, situations, and events to get to this girl.
After she made the commitment to follow Christ, I encouraged her to set up an appointment with one of our Crossing Recovery Pastors for the very next day. Hopefully she’ll be at CR tonight!!!!
Church, please pray for strength and courage for “Allie” today!
-Pastor Kasey Pupeza
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