On Thursday, August 18th, Toni, Allan, Stan and Jo were joined by John and Gem for the first time.
We set off to town via John Street, which was one of Toni's location clues. We ordinarily would walk to town through the nearest park so we felt this could be significant. We continued from John Street and approached a lady that had one of John's appearance clues. John spoke to the lady and soon realised that he had met her before through the King's Church Furniture Scheme. She didn't match any other clues and had little interest in discussing things further. Toni asked the two men who were with this lady about her clues. They didn't match any but were interested in what was happening. Toni said they could pretend to fit the clues as they seemed disappointed that they didn't! John briefly mentioned King's Church and the hunt continued.
After a few uneventful approaches we headed back. We felt that it was right to go back via John Street, again not the quickest or most obvious way, but to continue to search in Toni's location.
On the way, Stan prompted Toni to approach a man who fitted a denim appearance clue. The man appeared 'foreign' to Toni and Stan as he was gesturing pushing them away. Realising that he was English, Toni started a conversation about her clues but it wasn't going anywhere at this point so Stan followed it up with a general conversation about where the man was off too. This opened up a very fruitful conversation which led to the man (called K) being prayed for right there in the street. K had been hitch-hiking and walking a considerable distance, from the South of England to the Scottish highlands. Throughout the conversation, K kept adding to the list of things he wanted prayer for. He described himself as 'was born again' but had slipped back in his walk with God. Allan joined the conversation and prayer and we continued up North Road where we were all heading. As we reached John Street we parted from K, who was continuing his journey north. Stan blessed him with some kindness for his journey, we all wished him farewell and recommended that he re-connects with a church and that God is there and he is not on his own. We re-assured him that we would continue to pray for his list. This included a man named C, who was he was on the way to visit. K was concerned for C's lifestyle.
As Toni and Allan were praying later, they felt that although they would probably not see what happens to K and C here, they would see the results of this encounter in Heaven!
Amen to that one!
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