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Bogota, Colombia 1987

Being a Christian missionary (non-denominational at that time), my wife and I formed a little singing group with our four kids and we would visit restaurants and sing kid’s songs, usually on Sunday afternoons. There was a highway leading outside of Bogota, Camino a Chia, that had many dozens of restaurants that were ranch style and very beautiful.  We formed the custom of going from place to place, singing just a few songs in each one. Once in a while we would see a dozen men sitting together, with the obvious boss at the head of the table, and these types of men often reacted uncomfortable observing I was a ‘gringo’. I’d always tell my kids to go and tell them, “Hi, Jesus loves you!” and they would have a dumbfounded face after that. I did get to talk to a few of them once in a while and tell them about how we just preach Jesus wherever we go and ask,” Do you know Jesus?”. More often than not they were receptive and respectful. Actually, in those years of the 80s and 90s several of those kingpins did repent and come to Jesus, leaving behind that lifestyle, as recorded by many churches there. The restaurant owners often told us that no one would ever talk to them, knowing they were drug lords. I often wondered, would they have ever come to know about the Lord had it not been for active Christians running into them in public and approaching them? This is why we must ‘bring Jesus to the streets’, as that is the way He did it, going into all the world. Never think a person, no matter who they are will not listen. Don’t fear powerful people either, as they are just human and they might want to get to know Jesus to escape life’s too heavy burdens that they brought upon themselves. Jesus is the solution.