Praxis Church

I met a 60-year-old divorcee called J who lives a few doors down from us. She is very lonely and so says hello to anyone who walks past her in the street. My natural reaction to this would tend to be just to say hello and walk on, or even to ignore her.  But because of praying lots as a church that we would meet the broken, lonely, and lost, I stopped and chatted to her.

We ended up talking for 15 minutes or so about nothing in particular. After that my wife and I made a point of chatting to her each time we saw her in the street. It wasn't long before we were invited to her 'surprise' 60th birthday party. We began to invite her round to watch The X Factor with us.

She has been very grateful for the time we have invested in the relationship (although we need to better at initiating contact with her) and we have been able to start to tell her about Jesus.