We’d just set up our tent when my national partner asked me to join her and bring my EvangeCube. It was an odd request, but I didn’t question it. We’d bonded over the last couple of days, and I trusted her.
I got up, grabbed my Rubix cube-like evangelism tool, walked uphill, and sat next to her. Within seconds her request made perfect sense.
I’d assumed everyone helping at our campsite was a believer, but that wasn’t the case. We’d hired two older men from a neighboring nation to help our team for the week. While the rest of us read our Bibles in the morning and prayed and worshipped by the campfire together, they were still in the dark about God’s grace.
That’s why she’d called me to her side.
We invited the men to take a break and sit down with us to talk. They conceded and cautiously listened to me tell the story behind our team's travel to the other side of the world.
For the first time, they heard about the God who created all things—from the mountains we trekked to the people living among them. It seemed to me like their countenance softened as I told them that people were God’s special creation, ultimately designed to know and love Him.
I continued to unfold the gospel story in my hand. The bad news of our separation from our Maker due to sin soon turned good as I shared about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I asked them what they thought of the story.
“We feel good.”
A quiet, three-word response testified to the work of the Holy Spirit in their hearts. I asked my national partner to share more about following Christ, and we prayed out loud with them as they confessed their new belief in Jesus as their Lord and Savior.