Discipleship Started Today!

Hello Everyone,
I am writing you all today to let you know that I have started one-to-one discipleship with a new believer in our church. His name is Rico. I want to share with you a little history about him before I write to you on how it went!

Almost two years ago during an outreach with CC Downey, we were in downtown Herborn kind of spread out through the city sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. One of the guys on the team, Eddie, had started a conversation with Rico just outside of the train station. After a few minutes I had joined the conversation and used the little bit of German that I knew to try to communicate the gospel to him. Rico seemed really interested and we exchanged contact information. At that time, I had let him know that I had just moved here around 4 months before and would love to further the conversation with him. Well, I called him a few times and even texted him, but he never responded to me.
Well now, if you fast-forward to about a few months ago from today, Ronja, a sister her in the church (who just left today for Jamaica), was on her way back home from Pastor Edmund and Martha's house. She shared with me just the other day, that usually on Fridays, because of the market that is going on in downtown Herborn, she doesn't like to walk through the middle of the city, because there are too many people there, but this specific day she chose to walk through the city. Well on this day, she ran into Rico, someone whom she had known from her past and she ended up sharing with him for many hours about the love of Jesus! Once again, Rico was really interested and wanted to talk to her more about it. Since that time, she has been bringing Rico with her to church and he has given his life to the Lord.
Before Ronja left to Jamaica, I let her know that I really wanted to get in contact with Rico so that he could continue to stay in contact with me and others as well here in the church. Recently after one of the services, I talked with him and let him know about this discipleship booklet that we have translated into German and let him know that if he was interested, I would begin to disciple him. He was very interested and we have officially started today!

Our first meeting today was absolutely amazing! One of the amazing things about our meeting is that 98% of the conversation was in German and 100% of it was about Jesus and who He is - Jesus is God! Absolutely amazing!

I do want to ask all of you to please be praying for Rico and I as we will be meeting on ever Friday morning for a few hours and will be slowly going through the One-to-One Discipleship booklet!

PRAISE THE LORD!