Tonight is our service in the bar (and we wouldn't mind your prayers). Yesterday I heard about something I had somehow missed.
There's a bartender/waitress at this pub where we're meeting who is very pregnant. She used to be a stripper. (Let me make it clear that I have this information second-hand. I have seen her wait on tables, but I have never seen her strip.) Apparently there's not much call for pregnant strippers, so she had to find a new job, which is why she's now at the pub.
Anyway, a couple of our Forefront ladies decided to throw her a surprise baby shower. So a few weeks ago they showed up early on Tuesday night, with all kinds of presents for her! (How awesome is that?!? No offense to any one else's churches, but we have the coolest people on the planet!)
So, as you might expect, this lady is all shocked and surprised and grateful. But then she tells our girls that no one else has thrown her a baby shower! Not her stripper friends, her bar friends, no one. The only baby shower she's had is the one a few Christian women from Forefront threw her; women who had met her just a few times.
Okay, seriously, that's one of the best stories I've ever heard (typically you have to hang out with Tony Campollo to get something that good), and it happened at my church (!), and I didn't even hear about it until a couple of weeks after it happened (!!).
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007
A New All-Time Favorite Story
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That is a great story, and a testament to the great things God is doing through your ministry at the pub. You and your people are truly going where Jesus would have gone. May God continue to bless your efforts there.
WOW!
I am so impressed by the love you are showing, and by you, I mean, Forefront church. Your ladies did what God put on their hearts to do. I was in the role of pregnant, unwed, ginso bar room queen. I know for a fact that a seed has been planted in that young lady's life. Jesus loves her so much.
Rock on Forefront.
I was there that night as an obsever from afar. It was evident that she was just stunned by the outpouring of Love from these ladies. It was just a couple of things either. It was a bunch of stuff and bags and gifts. Totally cool! Something that I shall not soon forget fer sure!
Sooooo Happy to be part of this Bigger Story! Thanks for having the "nads" to even do this pub thing Vince!
ooops...., meant to say - "It wasn't just a couple of things."
Very cool thing to do. And inspiring all of us to get out there and just love people more.
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