Modeling Our All Nations Values: We treat each other graciously and generously
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God made me to be an evangelist … this doesn't mean preaching in big tents or wearing white patent-leather shoes, at least not for me at this time in my life. Instead, upon returning from life in Africa, God asked me to do this in the context of business. I run an RV park east of Austin, Texas. (Note: RV's are "recreational vehicles" and a park is designed to host people driving or towing these vehicles in which they vacation, live or even work.)
Recently, a very frazzled woman and a very grumpy man showed up at my park to check in. They were understandably annoyed because we have been so busy that we have been very difficult to reach by phone. While I was dealing with the two of them, the unhappy man left and his wife, who remained, rather quickly, let me know that she had just driven from a state very far away from Texas with a man who has PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder).
A week or two passed and one day I had a chance to speak with the man who initially approached me because he was upset about people walking through his lot. What could have been a rather unpleasant conversation quickly turned into two men talking about life and eventually I broached the topic of my faith. He asked me pointedly, "So you are a Christian?" I answered that I was and before long he was talking about his own experience with Promise Keepers back in the 90's.
I was so pleasantly surprised to find that he was most likely a believer! Someone, whom in my flesh, I was tempted to write off is actually my brother in Christ! As an evangelist, I really don't struggle to love perfect strangers on a regular basis, but sometimes as a businessman and a manager of people, I can find the most negative guests to be the most difficult to love. God used this experience to remind me that what I have done "to the least of these brothers" of His, I have done unto Him (Matthew 25).
I wonder whom God might have put in your life to allow you the opportunity toward which to be gracious and generous? Could it be an annoying co-worker or maybe a classmate, neighbor or grocery clerk?
About the author: Mark and Ceci Proeger and their family served in Cape Town, South Africa, for three and a half years after Steve Hawthorne encouraged him to check out the work All Nations Co-Founder Floyd McClung was doing in Cape Town. Now Ceci serves as the global operations pastor at their church in Austin, Texas, while Mark has built an RV park that he owns and operates with two partners. He regularly uses his position to speak with park guests about the Lord or to pray with them.
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