What we do in life echoes in eternity

Day 14 - 31 May (Thur) I met a guy with Jack today at the medical campus from Isreal who is friends with a guy we know from church named George, who is also from Isreal. They guy we met today was quite an interesting and intruiging individual. He is an Arab Christian from Isreal, not the most common of occurances. He is from Nazareth which is in the northern part of Isreal, and it was very intersting to hear what he had to say about the war and globalization. He has an Aunt who lives in Chicago, and she was going to come visit, but she said she was worried about there being tanks in the town where he lives. His family just laughed at this because the war is more than 40 kilometers away which is quite aways he said. He thinks its funny how we portray the war because it is very much different than the actual war that is going on. When we mentioned that he knew George his first response to us was "So you are evangelist then?" Something that neither Jack or I had a good answer for, we were actually caught off guard. I have never been called and evangelist or never considered my self one, I always just thought of myself as a Christ follower doing my best to do his will. There is also a negative conotation with the word, because of televangelist and people of that nature so it is hard to just lump myself into that category. But back to Elias, which translates to Elijah in english. We started talking to him about God a little, and he said that he had his doubts, but he said that he would talk to George and think about coming to church on sunday. Jack and I have been praying and we really hope that he does come! It would be very exciting for us and also for George. Elias is an awesome guy and I hope I get to chat with him more in the future! Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.- Ralph Waldo Emerson