Last Saturday, 11 of us that attended YC prayer meet did something unusual for prayer meet standards. After breaking the Word (Gospel passage for Mission Sunday – Mark 16: 15 – 20) using the Seven Step Bible Sharing Method, we were instructed to act upon this mission. Everyone was shocked, and started exclaiming and commenting. But we were told that instead of proselytising, we would simply go outside church, in pairs, and ask passers-by if they had anything that they wanted us to pray for. We would then collate the intentions and say a rosary for them. This was a first-time experience for most of us. Some had difficulties - fear of approaching people, language barriers, getting avoided or rejected – but most of us managed to find at least one person that was willing to hear us out. When we got back to the room, everyone started excitedly sharing about what they had encoutered. We then prayed for each person that we had encoutered that evening and their intentions, as we said one decade of the rosary. I really felt as though we had taken a baby step towards our Christian mission, in a different way than we normally would.
“Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.” (Mark 16: 20)
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