Adventures of Traveling Me
Today I walked with Stephen and John around the top of Camden. We started the day walking to Clink Hostel where we stopped and sat on the steps for an hour and just prayed over the hostel and the people of London. And we praised God that he allowed us to be a part of this trip and experience. He is definitely working here. We talked to a guy named Vernon on the steps for a bit. He is from Manchester England near Liverpool.
We then walked to King's Cross and noticed a woman on the stairs telling us to come in and eat breakfast. She was homeless. Come to find out the church serves breakfast to the homeless on Mondays and Tuesdays in the basement of the church. We had several conversations with homeless people. Several seemed to have a distorted view of God and His Word. We listened to what they had to say and when we left we prayed for their salvation and that they would know the Truth.
We then walked to King's Cross Mosque. Did you know that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world? We prayed for the mosque and that the people would understand God and that He sent His son Jesus Christ to die for our sins.
Since John and Stephen walked this area the day before, we went back to an interesting church they had seen yesterday called Lumen. Lumen is a part of the United Reformation Church and combines beliefs of Church of Christ and Presbyterian. The church also has a cafe in the front and several pamphlets about architecture and artwork. Its honestly a bit confusing how the church operates. When I took a look around, I asked a guy who was cleaning one of the open rooms about the church and its beliefs. His name was Kuan. He told me more about the architecture of the building and didn't know anything about the doctrine. I then asked him whether he attended or not and he told me he didn't believe in God. At that moment I knew I needed to share the gospel with him. After that point I honestly don't remember much about the conversation except that he was open to hear what I had to say. God really led the conversation and gave me the words to say. I then got his email address to keep in touch. We will need to pray for him and his salvation. We also need to pray that the focus of the church is on Christ and not the architecture. That just makes me think of what Pastor Buddy Gray always says: "It's not the building, it's the people."
After we left Lumen, we walked to Holy Cross Church to check it out. It wasn't open for us to go in so we went on our way. We walked through King's Cross station which is both a train and subway station.
There were so many people in the station. We stopped inside and prayed for the people traveling.
Then something so cool happened that only God could be responsible for. As we were leaving the station, probably 2 hours after we had left Lumen (several streets away), we passed Kuan coming in the station as we're coming out. Stephen called out his name and he was surprised to see us as well. We talked to him more and again sensed his willingness to talk to us, as if he liked our company. We chatted for a minute then said it was good to see him again and started walking again.
John, Stephen and I were in awe that we ran in to Kuan at the station. There were so many people there and if we had left 1 minute earlier or 1 minute later, we would have missed him! How awesome is that?? So please pray that Kuan will come to know the Lord because it's not just a coincidence that we ran in to him again.
Tonight the group road the subway to Hampstead Heath, like the Upper East side of NYC. We walked by a real estate agency where we saw a house going for 2.9 million pounds which converts to $4.2 million! We ate dinner at Pizza Express, which you would assume by it's name that it's a fast food pizza place like a Pizza Hut, but it was very nice and had speciality pizza. We all ate a whole personal pan pizza to ourselves, and dessert! I'm stuffed and ready for bed. Night!
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