Boise

Country: United States
State or province: Idaho

Team Leader
Lucy Stamm
Contact

Admin
Login

Team Badges

A Safe Place - 2024-08-04

August 18, 2024

God is trustworthy. So, thank you again for your prayers for the Boise Catholic street evangelization effort.

A woman brought us a cell phone that she had seen “fall out of a girl’s pocket as she rode through the fountain”. The woman and her party “couldn’t wait around any longer”, so she asked us to hang onto the phone in case the girl came back. After half an hour, still no one had come for the phone. So, one of the evangelists asked St. Anthony to put in a word for the girl. Just a few moments after that, a young-adult woman with a worried look on her face moved her scooter slowly toward us up the south spoke of the business park. When we made eye contact, she came closer to the table and asked if anyone “had happened to turn in a cell phone”. We held it up, and her face lit up. “It was my life!” she said. She immediately used it to send or post a message. When her attention returned, e. Lucy offered her a free Rosary and she accepted. Asked if she were familiar with the devotion, she replied, “Yes, I used to be Catholic.” Please pray that the young woman now finds her lost Faith! (And thank you again, St. Anthony, for your intercession for her!)

Only after the phone had found its rightful owner did two pairs of police officers on bicycles pass us. The first group was unfamiliar to us and “was going the wrong way” (moving south to north through the square). The familiar group passed by somewhat later. All four officers greeted us with friendly smiles.

After one person came to the table for a Rosary, a large family followed, in groups of three or four. They each ended up with a Rosary, several of them wanting the prayer pamphlet in Spanish. We encouraged them to pray it together daily.

While e. Lucy was helping the final few members of the family choose their Rosary, a heavily tattooed man on a scooter responded to our offer of a Rosary. He chatted with e. Chuck while waiting for the family to move on. He had been raised Catholic, but had led a criminal life and had only recently gotten out of prison. Now ready to turn his life around, he said that God was “back in his life” and he was “receiving blessings again”. The evangelist tried to gently help him recognize that God had always been with him and “blessings” were not the only sign of God. We gave him a map of area parishes, and recommended he talk to a priest and get back to the Sacraments as soon as possible. But he said he had “some guys” he was talking to. Pray for his conversion, perseverance, and obedience of faith.

Another man declined a Rosary but said he had questions. At that, his wife walked away and sat down at a nearby picnic table. “Mitch” had been raised by parents who “believed in God but never attended church”. Mitch’s questions and remarks often conflicted with each other, and he changed the subject whenever the evangelist tried to help him see a way out of each predicament. His father had experienced a near-death experience, which had led to profound changes in his father. But that still did not move Mitch to “accept the reality of the supernatural”, although he could not express why he still rejected it. His wife must have signaled her impatience, because he suddenly ended the conversation and moved to leave, So, we gave him the “Existence of God”, “Who Am I?”, and “Do I Need A Savior?” pamphlets, and let him know we were there every week. Pray for Mitch, that his heart is softened, his mind opened, and he can hear the call of his Lord and Savior.

“Zeke”, a 20-something man on a bicycle, stopped to choose a Rosary. He had been raised Catholic, but it sounded like no one in the family was active anymore. He then shared that his brother had died recently, and he wanted to put the Rosary on his brother’s grave. We encouraged him, instead, to pray the Rosary for his brother and gave him a Divine Mercy card as another prayer for his brother. Pray that his brother’s passing will open his eyes to his own need to actively devote his life to our only path to a happy eternity, Jesus Christ.

Altogether, we gave away 15-20 Rosaries and its pamphlet (3-4 of them in Spanish), a copy of the “Existence of God”, “Who Am I?”, and “Do I Need a Savior?” pamphlets, and a Divine Mercy prayer card.

Please pray for us again today? Ask God to send people to us with hearts prepared to perceive their need for Our Savior Jesus Christ and His Holy Catholic Church, and that much good fruit for His Kingdom comes of today’s efforts.

We try to communicate God’s infinite goodness and love. So, thank you again for your prayers and other support for this apostolate. In turn, may God protect and greatly bless you and all those you love!

“Go with the strength you have” (Judg 6:14).