Cambridge, MA
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This following story comes to us from team leader Marissa with our team in Cambridge, MA:
A friend considering joining us for a SPSE outing recently asked me how I deal with the tension of not knowing everything myself and yet still having the confidence to go out evangelizing. It’s a very good question. While I was going through the SPSE training, before we had actually had an outing, I remember one particular moment where I was just feeling so incredibly inadequate and unworthy of the mission before me.
What I’ve come to learn from our first few outings, however, is that it’s totally not about me. It’s all the Holy Spirit’s work. That is the answer I gave my friend: that my own personal inadequacies aren’t going to stop the Holy Spirit. In fact, Christ’s power is made perfect in weakness (2 Cor 12:9). I came to learn this lesson yet again today. Things were off to an inauspicious start. I found myself in a rather grumpy and stressed mood today, a fact which I confided in one of my co-evangelists on the walk over to Harvard Square. Further, it was raining cats and dogs, so we would have to evangelize from the T station. We weren’t sure how many people would be out and about given the weather. Due to various (completely valid!) circumstances, the team would be smaller than originally anticipated as well. All in all, I was wondering whether today had been the wrong day to pick to go out.
But fortunately God is not subject to limitations! He can still work in me and in my co-evangelists regardless of how we’re feeling at any given moment! And that’s the great beauty of it – all we have to do is show up and He takes it from there. (And in fact, even the act of showing up is only possible by His grace!)
We spoke with one woman who was on her way to take an assessment associated with a job application. We learned that this woman grew up Catholic, having come from a predominantly Catholic country. These days, she practices a mix of Catholicism, Judaism, Buddhism, and Spiritualism. In order to not give away too much personal information, I will just say that, serendipitously, I knew of a Catholic ministry in the area that seemed like an extremely good fit for her, based on other information she shared. I got her email address and will be putting her in touch with this ministry. Towards the end of the conversation, she said she got good vibes from us, which put her in a good mood for her interview. We prayed aloud for her regarding her interview. At the end, she wanted hugs, which we gladly gave!