Internet Evangelism

We have all heard of Internet dating, but what about Internet evangelism?

Well, this last week Brad and his wife Katy came over due to a little Internet evangelism that I did last month.

The story is pretty simple. It goes like this:
There is a website here in Fort McMurray that is used as a community classified ad and also a community event page. The website is called mymcmurray.com

One of the sections on this site has a long, long list of parents looking for child-care. Their are very few day care centres here, and none of them take drop ins. Many parents here have a live-in Philipino nanny to take care of the kids. Cinnamon and I took a quick look at our bank account and a long look at our kids and decided that their would be no such caretaker for our babies.

Katy was no live-in nanny fan either. Katy's post intrigued me when I read it a few weeks back. Katy indicated that she had moved to Fort McMurray from British Columbia and could not find child-care/babysitting for her kids so that her and her husband could go out on a date. It had been almost three years since they had gone on a date alone.

I thought and prayed about that, and wondered what could be done to help Katy and her husband.

I then decided to email Katy and tell her that my wife and I were new missionaries in town and had done a little babysitting co-op back in Texas with some good friends. I typed her an email and suggested that her and her family should come over for supper and we would get to know each other and maybe some time in the future we would watch their kids for them.

4 minutes after I sent the email, certain I would not get a response since I had made it really clear that I was a baptist missionary, Katy wrote back. Katy and Brad did want to come over and would love to eat and meet us. Last Friday they came over, with three kids and one on the way, and a dessert.

5 hours later they left. They enjoyed hearing why we left Texas, they enjoyed our hospitality, and most importantly they enjoyed seeing Jesus in us. She has never gone to church, and he is a self-confessed "former Mormon turned hellraiser", but they admitted that they did since a "missing piece/peace" within themselves.

Please pray that they will keep their promise and come back over again, maybe for the Christmas Bible story time in a couple of weeks. Brad said that he might bring his guitar and play some Christmas carols. We will see, but for now pray that the Spirit would convict them and draw them.