The Boise team’s newest member, Joe Bruce, is shown here with evangelist Val Allen.Joe is involved in with youth ministry at a nearby parish and has walked past the Boise team’s table every week for several months now.
Today, he stopped and asked Val if he could join the Boise team.
“Of course!” Val said.
“By the way,” Joe added, “have you guys noticed that the sun is always shining when you’re out here?”
Evangelists Val and Lucy Stamm laughed.
“Yes,” Lucy said, “it’s an on-going miracle that God has been working for us for two years now. No matter how awful the weather has been, by Sunday afternoon it’s dry and relatively pleasant.”
Val, who commutes to the evangelization site from across town, added, “And sometimes the break in the weather is only for the very short window of time that we’re out here.”
“That’s true,” Lucy confirmed. “We take it to mean that God wants us to keep coming out here, doing this.”
The fact that Joe noticed the miracle makes the team think that God will be using him in the SPSE apostolate in a big way to lead people to (or back to) Jesus Christ and the Church that He founded. Welcome aboard, Joe!
Please pray for Joe and pray for the Boise team. Please also pray that God sends all our team’s more evangelists. Many Catholics feel they are too busy or too afraid to evangelize and all of our teams need help. Please also pray about getting involved, either by hitting the streets with us, starting a team of your own, or by becoming a supporting member.
That is GREAT. I know you are in Mormon town, so I hope you have read Isaiah Bennet’s book “Inside Mornonism”. He was a Catholic priest in Spokane who fell in love with a Mormon woman and left the Church. They put him in Salt Lake City in the main Temple to teach the Mormon faith because of his background in theology. While he studied, he learned that Mormons DO allow for Abortion in some cases – rape. He was told they did not. He studied more and more and found that the one true church was the Catholic Church all along. He returned to the faith and wrote a book about it.
I’m thrilled about this young man wanting to evangelize too. I will remember you in prayer. We used to live near Boise when we took care of LDS daughter and family when she was losing her valiant fight with cancer. Hubby and I went to Holy Apostles during all this time with visits to a few other Parishes. Daughter’s family lives in Utah now, about a hour from us. I guess I failed in evangelization, but we get along fine.
I’m considered to be a behind the scenes evangelist. I put out rosaries and pamphlets, and pray. I started the on line lessons but have been very distracted. I doubt I can talk to people tho. Also put out displays and info for pro-life at our Parish, and pray. I’m a Secular Carmelite….prayer is our way. May you bring many to Christ and his church. M.A.
I am the coordinator for the Berkekey, CA chapter. I travel quite a bit for my job and one of my regular cities is Boise. I decided to reach out to the SPSE teams in the cities I visit to see if I can join them if they are working on the days I am there. I got to evangelize one evening with Lucy and it was very windy. Lucy suggested we pray a Rosary and ask for better weather and for the Lord to send us some people, since there was nobody around. It worked. So I went t out to help with evangelizing and got evangelized myself.